Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With DuFresne racking up 102 yards on 27 carries, quarterback Jeff Kemp--son of the ex-quarterback and now-senator from New York, Jack--shifted the Dartmouth offense into gear...
...review Jay Cocks did on The Who at Madison Square Garden [Oct. 1] was one of the nicest and most honest reviews of the group I have read in a while. I went to New York City for the second of those concerts, and Cocks described it like it was. The Who have proved themselves to be the best rock-'n'-roll band ever. I was so touched, excited and happy for The Who and all their fans that words couldn't express my emotions. I'm glad Cocks feels...
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...floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where prices had generally been climbing through the year, brokers were swept up in a selling wave that caused pandemonium on Wall Street and twinges of fear throughout the country. In just five days, the market dive left investors with some $55 billion in paper losses and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging a total of 58.62 points to a week's close of 838.99. In terms of points, that was the Dow's second steepest one-week decline ever; during the week of Oct. 16, 1978, when prices were hammered...
...trying to manipulate interest rates, its traditional device for controlling the growth of money, and will just stop creating so many dollars instead. The Fed regulates the level of money in the economy by buying or selling Government securities through its so-called Open Market Desk at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. When the bank buys the securities, it pumps money into the economy; when it sells them, money is drawn out, and interest rates rise. The Fed is now saying that, within broad limits, interest rates can go where they will because the bank will instead be concentrating...