Word: betting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these three are out, we're in trouble," McCurdy said yesterday. "Reid was our only hope to break up the exceptional Dartmouth sprinters, Hickman was a lead pipe cinch to win the highs, and Leone was our best bet to match the two Dartmouth...
...anti-Chiang correspondent in China, Teddy White. Luce even tried to "get off the hook with Chiang" after he refused to accept General Marshall's proposals to face the realities of Nationalist China. From then on, Luce continued to lobby personally for aid to Chiang, but no longer bet on him as a journalist. Luce seldom overstayed a losing crusade...
...bet these guys were unanimous choices for the team," Harvard coach John Lee said yesterday. "Starr and Blakinger are tough wrestlers. They really picked up wins when we needed them...
Harvard's major disappointment in the morning sabre trials was the performance of Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela. Valenzuela had been considered by many to be one of the leading contenders for the individual sabre crown and an almost sure bet to make it into the finals, and he left a lot of people disappointed...
Then why had the crisis burst? The simplest and most ominous explanation seems to be that currency speculation has developed a self-sustaining momentum independent of economic logic. The crude fact is that speculators who have bet against the dollar since 1971 have profited, while people and companies that could have speculated but held dollars instead have been hurt by two declines in the dollar's value. Many "speculators" are bankers and corporate treasurers who are anxious to keep their overseas holdings in safe currencies. There also is evidence that Middle East oil sheiks, who are paid...