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...what the buyers will pay. Then it will set the rate on a $1.8 billion short-term issue. Anderson tried no long-term bond, simply because the Treasury can not get an interest rate high enough (i.e., above 4¼% ) to sell it. Publicly, the Treasury is keeping a stiff lip. Privately, it trembles...
Holy Cross has not shown any great strength this year, having lost to Dartmouth, the only stiff opposition the team has faced. In their other four contests the Crusaders edged Providence twice, and defeated Williams and A.I.C...
...Opera Guild's stratagem involves the substitution of spoken dialogue for many of the recitatives, and the employment of an English translation that wavers between brassy colloquialism and comically stiff couplets. Along with the idiocies of the plot itself, they provided an enjoyable parody of the heroic style. It was difficult to tell at first whether the action was farcial by intent or accident ("Where did I get the nerve?" muses the soprano after telling off Xerxes), but as the melodramatic cliches become less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper...
...varsity golf team will be trying for its 11th win against two losses today, as it meets a strong Yale team on its home course in Brookline. While the homecourse factor will be of some advantage to the Crimson, the Yale team is expected to provide stiff opposition...
...imported barbed wire $40 a ton under the U.S. price. Five years ago U.S. auto exports were five times imports; today imports are nearly four times exports. Other consumer industries, ranging from fishing tackle and electric clocks to cameras, transistor radios, and generators are also running into stiff competition because the U.S. manufacturer cannot match the foreign seller, for reasons ranging from price to quality and delivery terms...