Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their colleagues abroad that a weak Begin will be unwilling to take risks for peace and will be even more aligned than now with the hard-line religious parties that would have to guarantee his majority in the Knesset. But the Reagan Administration also views Israel as a strategic asset, as Secretary of State Alexander Haig puts it, in forming a bulwark in the Middle East against Soviet influence, an aim that concerns the Administration more than reviving the Camp David talks about Palestinian autonomy. Administration officials believe that Peres would be easier to deal with, but nonetheless respect Begin...
Murray's greatest asset, of course, is that he makes the audience feel like laughing, and that, as any comedian will tell you, is half the ballgame right there. Jack Benny could send his audience into hysterics with one squeaky note on his violin. Johnny Carson can turn a bad joke into a kneeslapper with a single bland stare, and Murray can send up lines so well by just standing there with that bemused, half-dopey smile on his face, that by the time he utters a word, the audience is ready to laugh at whatever he says...
...wonder about the benefit of high interest rates. Admittedly, we can place our money in ready asset accounts and garner more interest. Meanwhile, we cannot afford to purchase a home because of the 16.5% prevailing mortgage rate...
...world economy to an asset that represents such a small part of the total monetary system is really impossible. You could as well stabilize the world economy on the cabbage standard. It is absurd." Adds the Fed's Schultz: "You have to get inflation down before you link the dollar with any commodity. Otherwise there will be turbulence and disruption as the real value of the dollar erodes and people demand their gold...
...remember that the partnership of parents and neighbors, civic leaders and politicians must agree that the schools are the most important single asset the community holds in common. Let us assert that the duty of that partnership is to decide that the first priority for public money is the school system. And let us insist that schools have a role and obligation in the treasured common life beyond just schooling. When we have reassembled a vision of the purpose of school and of the means of education, then we can pass to the rebuilding of what is both a system...