Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also mysterious, pervasive and, in the cold eyes of Western policymakers, dangerous and disruptive to current at tempts to combat inflation. Supermoney is the immense and swift-moving pool of currencies deposited in banks outside their home countries- and thus out of the control of any government. No body knows the total, but estimates run to $750 billion in ''offshore'' dollars and $250 billion in German marks and other, mostly European, money...
...Reserve Board insists that it puts little emphasis on weekly figures, which have always been subject to revision. But investors may logically wonder how the Fed can smoothly control money if its economists cannot be sure-within several billions-what the supply is from week to week...
...Altos, Calif, Performer-Proprietor Jakkee Bryson uses one of the 11-lb. desktop devices to keep track of her inventory of exotic costumes and records. An oil company depends on one of the little wonders to operate a rig off California; others keep track of election statistics for politicians, control light in theaters and synthesize music for rock stars...
...WEATHER the crooked linoleum corridors of the second floor of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, you come upon an unassuming, airy, office, distinguishable from all others only by its lazily opened door. Above the nameplate--"Prof. S. Glashow"--somebody's placed a gun control sticker, and above that a cockeyed "congratulations"--modest. as if in celebration of a birthday...
...first half, the Crimson strode in front despite Bruin control of the ball for more than 65 per cent of the time...