Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent a further fall in the value of the greenback, the U.S. Government, in close cooperation with leading foreign central banks, should step in and buy large quantities of dollars on world markets. This would require assembling a vast war chest of funds to show currency speculators that Washington has the money to back up that policy. Two fast and impressive steps would be increasing sales from the nation's $60 billion gold reserves, as former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns suggests, and enlarging the so-called swap network of dollar defense funds from $25 billion to $100 billion...
Everyone really let loose at my toga party. It's as though all that frivolity and all that linen seem to inject a kind of truth serum into the otherwise close-mouthed athletic celebrities at Harvard. I know I really shouldn't, but I've just got to let you in on some of the deep dark secrets they told...
...close," coach Debi Field said afterward. "We made some mistakes defensively but our offense was on target thanks to Sarah Mleczko...
...come so close, you know it's going to come," Diaz said the other night...
When he was a boy, Kerouac lived in the three-decker tenements of Lowell, Mass., then a booming textile and industrial city. He was very close to his parents -- especially to his mother -- who were French-Canadian immigrants. When Jack received an athletic scholarship to Columbia, his mother sighed with relief because her son would be "living with the people he should have grown up with...