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...gold bust is bad news for developing countries. The IMF puts the profits from its gold auctions into a special trust fund to aid poor nations; now the trust fund will be leaner than expected. The price collapse also poses problems for countries like France, Italy and Portugal, which hold a large proportion of their monetary reserves in gold.* It is even embarrassing to West Germany, which two years ago lent $2 billion to Italy against gold collateral-valued at what then seemed a ridiculously low $120 an ounce...
...mine went at life, down a slope, no brakes, wide-open, kind a stupid when you come right down to it. There were three dips in the rock near the bottom, and if you played them right you could come flying off the rock in the air, and belly-bust halfway across the pool, the point being to stay out of the water as long as possible, it being that godawful cold...
Wage Restraint. The 11 million members of the T.U.C.'s constituent unions will vote next week to ratify or reject that agreement and, as Healey bluntly put it, more severe welfare cuts than he has already planned could "bust the relationship between the unions and the government." With minimal fanfare, in order to avoid upsetting the unions, the government has already put a tighter rein on municipal welfare spending, cut a scheduled pension raise by one-third, and indefinitely postponed a new child-benefit scheme. But Healey turned aside demands from the opposition Conservatives for more sweeping cutbacks with...
Even by the standards of the often rowdy commodities market, the potato bust was bizarre. It resulted in 50 million Ibs. of potatoes, worth $4.2 million, not being delivered on schedule, sending almost 1,000 potato-futures contracts into default. That in turn promised to touch off scores of lawsuits and an investigation by Government regulators...
...coal company was handing out statements by our own leaders saying the union is going bust...