Word: againsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the upheavals caused by Volcker's monetary policy moves, the international commodity and money markets last week were enjoying rare refreshing quiet; the dollar held its own in Europe and rose dramatically against the yen in Japan. At the same time, gold slipped moderately to end the week...
The movie convention that all intricate schemes to abscond with large sums of cash must be perpetrated by terribly nice and attractive people and against chilly, faceless institutions is an understandable one. After all, if we are to enjoy these tales we must, for the length of the film, set...
How each magazine handled the story was left to individual editors. Predictably enough, no one comes out against the ERA. Presentations range from perfunctory (Playgirl devotes a mere 300 words in its editor's column) to intensely personal (writes Essence's editor in chief Marcia Ann Gillespie: "I...
The 1979 World Series against the American League Champion Baltimore Orioles brought the Pirates a full measure of good days and bad days, but the last and best day belonged to Willie Stargell. In a dramatic seventh game, Stargell hit the home run that won the world championship for Pittsburgh...
For both Russians and Americans, the supreme symbol of the Soviet Union at war was the "Leningrad" Symphony, Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh. In 1942, when Arturo Toscanini and the NBC orchestra performed it on radio for the first time in America, the New York Times music critic remarked that...