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...term goal. "They have sent a message: It is no longer a sure thing to bet against the dollar," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of the Goldman, Sachs International investment firm. Intervention, however, can be used only for fine tuning a currency's general direction. Too much intervening can disrupt a country's domestic economy. West Germany in particular is getting weary of issuing so much of its own currency to trade for dollars, a process that can lead to inflation...
...even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction: a spinster trying to manage a remote farm, a young female helper and a bizarre secret concealed on the premises (The Well); an old man dreaming up plans to disrupt the nursing home into which he has been dumped (Mr. Scobie's Riddle...
...What made it a tough decision," Phillips said, "is that I had to think about how much it was going to hurt the [basketball] team, and how it would disrupt the rhythm that was set when I wasn't there...
...stop for brief periods, only to go off on binges. This past year the American Psychiatric Association settled on three basic criteria to define and diagnose alcoholism: physiological symptoms, such as hand tremors and blackouts; psychological difficulties, which include an obsessive desire to drink; and behavioral problems that disrupt social or work life...
DIRECTOR Marci Bobis opens her version of Gamma Rays with the Suzanne Vega song "Small Blue Thing," its lyrics illustrated by slides of depression and grimness. As a prologue, the song provides an interesting interpretation of the play. But the snatches of the song that play between scenes disrupt the mood and continuity of Gamma Rays. It seems little more than a cover for the noises of a scene change...