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...bank had to pay the previous quarter to attract $100,000 CDs. The rate this quarter is 8.11%; it can go either up or down from there, but never below the 5% passbook rate. Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co. offers an "inflation-proof" $1,000 CD that will pay 7½% to 10% interest, with the exact amount to be determined by how fast the consumer price index rises...
Next morning, while Anglin' Sam packed his gear for the jet trip back to civilization, I strolled down to the dock to take a few practice casts. On the first toss a bass picked off my Rapala CD-115 in midair. The largemouth weighed just under 5 Ibs., my biggest take of the weekend. I kept casting, oblivious to pleadings that we had to go. "Just one more cast," I said. "Just one more...
...Ecuador Volunteers miss the point when they contend that the presence of Peace Corps staff arouses local resentment. Resentment is there, all right, but its target is not so much the staff as the Volunteers. No matter who supervised them, the presence of large numbers of Americans as teachers, CD workers, etc. would serve to remind Latins--and Africans and Asians--that they still lack enough trained people of their own for certain jobs...
...favored child among Corps' projects has become community development, and the aim of CD, says Frank Mankiewicz, Corps director for Latin America, "is nothing less than a complete change, reversal--revolution if you wish--in the social and economic patterns of the countries to which we are accredited." The Corps' job is to "give the people we work with an awareness of where the tools are to enable them to assert their political power...
...secretary's heart almost jumps out of her mouth as the civil defense buzzer sounds a Yellow Warning. The secretary runs to the principal. The principal runs to the phone and calls CD communications. The line is busy. Since time is of the essence, he must assume the worst. Pale and trembling, he assembles staff and students in the schoolyard and issues the ominous command: Go home as fast...