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...present policy--a blanket prohibition on investments in banks that make any loans to the South African government--"is simply too restrictive," George Putnam, the University's Treasurer and a Corporation member, said recently...
...been for the blanket of powder snow and the blue skies, the problems under discussion this year might have seemed weighty enough to send Mann's hero Hans Castorp back to the sanitarium for another seven years. Europe's most influential men were deeply upset over the turmoil in international financial markets. In a session chaired by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Karl Otto Pohl, president of the West German Bundesbank, expressed concern over the disparate rates of inflation throughout Europe and the West, calling for "effective measures for coordinating economic policy." Guido Carli, former governor...
...Irish playwright, almost blind, appears in his shabby, shadowy room, warmed by a dark red blanket, looking like some sort of sweet yet cranky prince of the mind and spirit. On the basis of his memoirs, that is just what Gjon Mili appears...
After the failed rescue mission, Metrinko was driven to the holy city of Qum and held for a week with two other hostages in a filthy, rat-infested prison cell whose windows were covered with blankets. He often heard the crack of a whip followed by screams; once when a blanket fell, he caught a glimpse of some Iranians being flogged...
Airman James O. Hughes, 31, another hostage released after 16 days, spent most of his captivity tied to a chair blindfolded; guards sometimes placed a blanket over his head. During repeated interrogations, his guards constantly played with their guns. Said Hughes: "I thought they might kill me just for the hell of it." Though he told his captors nothing, he said, the experience so unnerved him that he sought psychiatric help after his release. Explained Hughes: "Sometimes I still dream that I open a door and an Iranian wearing this big face of Khomeini on his chest shoots...