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As 1976 draws to an end, traders are once more looking ahead with rising confidence, buoyed by a growing conviction that President-elect Jimmy Carter can put zip into the lagging economy.

Although he started late, he managed to lure a pair of speedy backcourt men to put zip into the attack: Guards Rod Foster and Mike Holton.

But tighter money is anathema to the Kennedy Administration, which contends that higher interest rates would choke off borrowing for the very kind of industrial modernization that the U.S. needs to put zip into its economy.

He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000.