Word: bullion
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...horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against disaster. He cannot keep his gold in a sock (archaeology has not so far produced a Viking sock, though the Met has some withered shoes in a glass case), but he melts plundered silver down into ingots. Sometimes he buries them, wanders off across the Skagerrak...
...Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff suggested that squirreling away,dehydrated food and storing gallons of water represented about the best investment people could make. Casey, a gold bug, advises selling everything at hand and putting up to half the proceeds into "a well-hidden hoard." He likes bullion the best, but he also favors some gold mine stocks and South African Krugerrands. He confidently predicts that gold will eventually hit at least $1,600 per oz., but fails to say when. That kind of open-ended prognostication is all but worthless...
Preventing an East German sweep of the first week's bullion was the victory by Soviet Lina Kachusite in the 200-meter breaststroke. Behind by two seconds after 150 meters, she sprinted past a teammate to win by .07. Her time of 2:29.54 was slower than her own world record but comfortably ahead of Caulkins' 1980 best...
...Wood appears on the 1-oz. piece. Over the next five years a total of ten medallions will be issued, honoring American artists ranging from Mark Twain to Louis Armstrong. Since less than 4% of the population currently hold gold, precious-metals dealers foresee a continued bull market in bullion...
...Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything but turn a woman into an honorable schoolboy. The clothes are neat, crisp, classic; with various permutations, they can be romantic and understatedly sexy. The time-honored Fair Isle sweater, for example, now comes in bright, balletic colors as well as the traditional pastel yellows and blues. Madras jackets and Bermuda...