Word: againsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gold fever, the most infectious of monetary diseases during times of perceived economic distress and uncertainty, is epidemic. From Zurich to Chicago, from London to Hong Kong, goldbugs are scurrying once again to buy into their favorite hedge against disaster. With people battered by inflation and recession, worried about oil...
Though some compute the value of their hoards at less than market prices, any rise in those prices does lift the amount of a nation's reserves. Says Economist Robert Triffin, an international monetary expert: "Central banks now hold on their books assets that are ten times as valuable...
After Carter's belated move to shore up the battered dollar in November 1978, the Administration showed little concern about the gold boom. As long as gold buyers were not singling out dollars for heavy selling, the fever was viewed as a monetary nonevent. But this complacency faded rapidly...
President Carter declared last week that the strike against the Rock Island was causing severe economic disruption. This meant that he was able to invoke a 60-day cooling-off period under the National Labor Relations Act and send the strikers back to their jobs while a three-member emergency...
Managers who have found themselves embroiled in no-win squabbles with environmental and consumer groups might take some comfort in the problem facing the Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. It is being taken to court by, of all adversaries, an order of Roman Catholic nuns. Armed with 81...