Word: windows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beanpot, you throw all the records out the window," Cleary said yesterday. "We're going to shake up a few people...
...HAND-LETTERED sign in the window of Varnery's General Store, downtown Farmingon, reads: "Announcing! Senior Citizen's Discount Day. 10% Discount on all purchases, Wednesday Only. BEER & Cigarettes Excluded...
...during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated...
Most people disappear into their rooms; they close the window and pray, pray that some knowledge will join the carbon dioxide floating around the room; pray that maybe, just maybe, there'll be another "act of God"--a Blizzard of '80 if you will--and Harvard will shut down. The snow refuses to fall. They emerge at meal times, lingering over the lime sherbet, going back for more Sauerbraten, saying "yes" to the pureed squash. Anything to postpone...
...Federal Reserve provides its members with various services, such as check clearing, wire transfer of funds and even emergency delivery of $5 bills. Members can also borrow money at the Fed's "discount window," but the price is high in terms of idle reserves. The fact that some big commercial banks offer many of the other services at a modest fee is encouraging smaller banks to forgo access to the discount window and leave the system. When Chicago's Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank withdrew its $9 million reserves from the system last May, its earnings rose...