Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finance a vacation or "for any worthwhile purpose," as the bankers say, have long been as high as the law allows-13.38% in New York on a three-year car loan. But bankers will tighten standards for receiving such loans; some say they will scrutinize a borrower's "relationship" with the bank. Translation: if you don't already have a savings or checking account there, don't bother asking for a loan. Bright spot: student loans will continue to be available, and at interest rates as low as 7%. Bankers figure that cutting back on student loans...
...conjugal sex act-that would render procreation impossible. The widening use of artifical methods, he added, would encourage lower standards of sexual morality. John Paul II has held a slightly different view of the reasons against contraception. Only the openness to possible parenthood, he has written, puts a sexual relationship on a "genuinely personal level." To exclude the possibility of children, he argued, limits the relationship to the pursuit of sensual pleasure. John Paul unequivocally endorsed Humanae Vitae during his U.S. trip. Opinion polls in recent years have repeatedly shown that a vast number of American Catholic couples simply...
...deficit with Japan was beginning to dissipate. Said Mike Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador to Japan: "It's been a good summer. I haven't heard the word protectionism for months." By contrast, he said, the previous two years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee chairman, conceded that Japan, under U.S. pressure, had "begun to peel away" the cocoon of import regulations it had spun to protect its domestic industry from foreign...
When Paul E. Gray, chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), replaces Jerome B. Wiesner as president of the university in nine months, he will inherit a town/gown relationship free of daily strife but prone to fits of tension...
...location seems to give its town/gown relationship an advantage over more centrally located Harvard. City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said yesterday Cambridge and MIT have enjoyed a very "low key" relationship. "When they breathe it doesn't send a ripple through the city the way Harvard's actions do," she said...