Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Fox told the meeting yesterday that other ways to elicit this information have failed. He said "attaching a dollar sign is a last-resort solution...
...party. Shortly before, U.S. customs officials at Anchorage had stopped him as he was en route to Washington from Korea, and they copied his papers. The material included a three-page typewritten list of more than 90 legislators and federal officials, some of whom had figures with dollar signs written next to their names. The tip-off on Park may have come from CIA telephone taps and electronic bugs in South Korea-the disclosure of which may now be embarrassing to the U.S. Government. Park said the sums represented requests for campaign contributions, although some of the job holders...
...violent spasm yet in the seemingly endless agonies of the pound. The story, front-paged on Oct. 24 by London's Sunday Times, implied that the U.S. Government and the International Monetary Fund would insist that the British government let the pound sink to $1.50 against the U.S. dollar as a condition for a desperately needed $3.9 billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested that no detailed conditions for the loan have yet been negotiated. Even so, the pound fell...
Labor Party: The major contribution of the Labor Party to this election is a constant reiteration of its belief that the current international monetary system backed by the U.S. dollar is about to fall, and is propped up only by the machinations of a Rockefeller-Kennedy-Democratic cabal. The party's main platform is a call for a moratorium on international debts, so that third world countries can build up their economies and serve as markets for U.S. goods. Domestic policies are predicated on a demand that the U.S. build up its technological production capacity, thus increasing the number...
...Hard Dollar. It is not simply that Alex is a fool for punishment. He makes his living from it. He pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish...