Word: swiftness
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...weakened dollar has already forced up interest rates by reigniting more inflation fears. Investors are now demanding a higher return on fixed-income investments. From mid-March to the end of April, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds jumped from 7.5% to 8.5%, a remarkably swift rise. By the end of last week, yields had surged to 8.9%, the highest level in 15 months. The Federal Reserve Board allowed rates to climb in order to prop up the dollar. Higher interest rates bolster the U.S. currency by making dollar-denominated investments more attractive to foreign investors...
...Meters--1. Keith Clemins, Princeton, 1:49.54; 2. Pat Swift, Yale, 1:50.25; 3. Mike Nerstheimer, Army...
...vent their spleen at the taxman. The China Daily reported last week that in several provinces testy scofflaws turned on tax collectors with bricks and knives. In Shaanxi province, the paper said, a "gang of lawless ruffians" stormed a tax office, seriously injuring several employees. Peking has vowed swift punishment for those guilty of "assailing tax cadres...
...career maturity, the movie is more a day in the life of a working Boy Wonder. Yuppies could take notes on Foster's business sense as he pours over corporate reports, works late nights, and brashly persuades stodgy, old executives into backing his bold initiatives. He is even a swift jogger in a coat...
Sleeping on the job is rarely productive, but in the control room of a nuclear power plant it can spell catastrophe. For that reason, officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission took swift action last week. While investigating a tip, they learned that control-room operators and supervisors at the Peach Bottom nuclear plant near Delta, Pa., have been regularly sleeping at the switch for at least the past five months. Calling the power station, which is 35 miles northeast of Baltimore, an "immediate threat to the public health and safety," NRC officials ordered the plant shut down -- the first such...