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These and a thousand other truisms or semi-truisms are readily recalled in times of financial trouble to bolster this or that point. But money is also something very simple beyond all those definitions. It is one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country. Money gives its possessor a range of choices, and the way that a nation chooses to handle its money sharply illuminates its character. When the world tumbles into a financial crisis, the problem reflects the deeds and misdeeds of the principal governments, and at least in part...
Running instead will be juniors Erik Roth and John Heyburn, who have been waiting in the wings since the Heps for a chance to return to action. Both are strong, experienced runners with proven ability and could bolster the Crimson effort today...
...tente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions that Russia has moved permanently into Czechoslovakia have "significantly altered" the balance of power in Europe, he said. He urged the allies to put their forces in a greater state of readiness, to bolster their reserve units and revamp their mobilization plans...
Coogan's Bluff, Siegel's latest film, will bolster his already exalted position among his followers, even though it may not do much to make his name a household word. Like most of the other 24 pictures he has directed (among them: Madigan, Riot in Cell Block 11), this one is the sort of gritty cops-and-robbers movie that audiences take for granted. Coogan's Bluff has all the qualities that distinguished Siegel's previous efforts: it is fast, tough and so well made that it seems to have evolved naturally, almost without benefit of cast, crew or rehearsal...
Ahmed Yehia and Bruce Detora will probably see a lot of action today, filling in for the tired starters. Bob Gray, who has played only once since his head injury a month ago, "was starting to look like his old self this week," according to Munro, and should bolster the Crimson defense...