Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline of the dollar has compelled the Federal Government to dip deeply into its own Fort Knox reserves in its efforts to prop the faltering currency. Since early 1975, the Treasury has been holding periodic gold auctions in an attempt both to drive down the metal's price and to improve the appalling U.S. balance of payments deficit. The auctions benefit the trade balance because gold sales to foreigners are counted as exports. The International Monetary Fund has also been conducting monthly auctions, but the dollar has kept plunging anyway. In fact, a key element of President Carter...
...significant adverse effect on oil supplies. Since late December, lost Iranian production has been causing a worldwide petroleum shortfall of approximately 2.5 million bbl. a day. That is almost exactly the same amount that was lost during the 1973 Arab embargo, and oil companies are being forced to dip ever deeper into their inventories to make up for it. Last week Texaco, Shell and British Petroleum announced delivery cutbacks to their worldwide customers because of the supply pinch. In the U.S., current stockpiles amount to a 70-day supply for crude. Said Schlesinger to the Senate committee: "As we reach...
Temperatures reached minus three degrees yesterday and are expected to dip to around zero today, according to National Weather Service reports...
Both Lyons and McCarthy said their business would dip slightly if the drinking age went up to 21, but added they would make...
...Animal Science, Ancient Mystic Order of Bagmen of Bagdad, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (also Does), Knights of Pythias (also of Columbus, Equity, St. John, York and Templar), United Commercial Travelers, Automotive Dismantlers and Recyclers, neurologists, gynecologists, anesthesiologists, otorhinolaryngologists, Funeral Directors and Morticians, Sugar Beet Technologists and Hot Dip Galvanizers...