Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the absence of two regular scorers. Thad McNulty and Buck Logan, the Crimson easily took control of a rather unexciting meet, capturing the top three places. "It was just like a work-out," John Murphy, who finished second, said after the meet. "A work-out that went fairly well," he added...
...primary victim of this classic inflationary flight into goods. West Germany raised the value of its muscular mark by 2% against other European currencies to discourage speculators from dumping dollars to buy marks. But all it took was some news about the U.S. trade deficit to send the buck plunging sharply anyway. Most members of TIME's Board of Economists expect the dollar to fall further. So long as inflation in the U.S. remains steeper than in other leading industrial countries, says Economist Otto Eckstein, "the dollar is indefensible...
...ready for the crowd, too. Though the rain reduced the expected throngs by about half, peddlers were out in full force, and in violation of a two-day ban on hawking downtown. Selling posters, records, flowers, buttons and even "Pope adds Life" t-shirts, they tried to make a buck off sentimental throngs...
...offer him one of my Marlboros. This is not, I gather, what he wants. With beer at 90 cents a pop, dope has become cost effective, a weird Republican alternative: more bang for the buck...
...will be deeper and longer than was predicted only three months ago. So some economists dispute Volcker's assertion that "what basically is good for the dollar is good for the economy at home." They are fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July, as governments try to curb inflation. But the U.S. has been playing catch-up with European and Japanese rates. At present, U.S. interest levels are no higher than existing U.S. inflation rates; thus there...