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...actress Betsy Blair, 85, married dance legend Gene Kelly at the start of a promising career that came to an abrupt halt when she was blacklisted. She made a comeback with an Oscar nomination for 1955's Marty...
...China's proposal for a greater role for SDRs. The dollar lost 1.3% against the euro within 10 minutes of Geithner's unexpected comment. (The greenback recovered a short time later, after Geithner said he expected the dollar to remain the top global currency.) "The chance of a very abrupt fall in the dollar is quite possible," says Harvard University economist Jeffrey Frankel...
Wednesday night’s “River Run” came to an abrupt halt when the Cambridge Fire Department arrived on the scene in response to a call about a possible fire at the Weld Boathouse...
...This is relevant background for digesting the news that Barack Obama's honeymoon in the corridors of power has come to an abrupt end - even as opinion polls show that the public remains by his side. To most grownups, seven weeks is an eyeblink (in baseball it's called spring training), but along the Acela line it is much ... too ... long to wait for Obama to fix the economy. And so the doomsday chorus began: He's trying to do too much. He's doing too little. His bank bailout is too complicated. His health-care plan is hollow...
...abrupt termination of the Citibank program in October left Harvard administrators scrambling to find ways to maintain their commitment to financial aid across the University...