Word: clippings
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...Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context of a Holly wood-style epic. At the end of the play, the audience sees credits on the screen rather than a row of bowing actors. It is unfortunate, however, when a device--in this case, a film clip of battle scenes from Olivier's "Henry V"--elicits more of a response from the audience than the play itself...
...PROMINENT MONETARIST has called the EMS "a fundamentally flawed idea," arguing that it is untenable to align foreign exchange rates without fixing monetary growth rates. Statistics support the observation. The free-spending socialist government has allowed the French money supply to grow at a 14 percent clip in the past two years. The German rate snailed at 2 percent for a similar period, partly because of conservative fiscal policies. A high French inflation rate (9.5 percent) and staggering external trade balance ($13 billion) have slowed the French economy while the German trade balance sprinted ahead, reporting a $3 billion surplus...
...lottery was part of a fund-raising drive that included clip-out contribution coupons and special promotional appeals designed in the words of fund raising brochures to "put a little fun into the serious business of fundraising...
OPEC is counting on a surge in demand to firm up prices. For several weeks, oil refiners have been shunning OPEC crude and drawing down their inventories at a particularly rapid clip-some 4 million to 5 million bbl. per day-in anticipation of price cuts. At some point, the refiners will have to start rebuilding their stocks. In addition, the emerging economic recovery in the industrial nations could spur oil consumption and send prices back...
...addition, police estimated the value of property stolen from March 10 to March 16 at $12,178.43, including a gold money clip and a gold toothpick worth $250 that were taken from a secured locker at Blodgett Pool...