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...producers may take Iran's experience as a warning and begin moving their funds quietly out of dollars and into foreign currencies, gold and other assets. So far, there is no sign of that happening, nor is there likely to be. Most governments, those belonging to OPEC included, applaud the tough-minded stand that Washington has taken with the Khomeini regime...
...nobody meaner than this dude. But Hagman plays him with such obvious zest and charm that he is impossible to dislike. Why was lago so evil? Hagman knows: it's fun being bad. And that is the secret the creators of Dallas have discovered too. Audiences applaud the good guys, but they watch the bad ones, hour after hour after hour. -Gerald Clarke
DOLLAR UP SHARPLY; EUROPEANS APPLAUD U.S. ECONOMIC CURBS --New York Times, October...
DAVID GROVE: "I applaud," says Grove, a private consultant and senior economic adviser to Marine Midland Bank. "A slow and gradual approach to curbing inflation would not be very effective. I prefer a quick and dirty approach, and the Fed's actions are very much along that line. They will give the domestic public and foreigners the sense that we really are going to come to grips with inflation." Grove concedes that a dramatic and determined" credit squeeze would depress business activity and push up the unemployment rate. He also thinks the stock market had good reason to flop...
Though his homily chided Americans for material and physical excesses, the audience responded warmly to him. interrupting his address 40 times to applaud. Many people in the crowd had waited to see him for six hours...