Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luis Echeverría Alvarez has been troubled by the prospect of an economic boycott, principally involving the tourist industry, carried out by American Jewish organizations in the wake of Mexico's vote for the Zionism resolution. Faced with a big drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with the Arabs. He told them...
Warning of Peril. From the beginning, the race was between Barbagelata's belt-tightening oratory and Mascone's smoother campaign organization and personal style. The dollar-conscious Barbagelata, a businessman who keeps a pocket calculator at the ready during board of supervisors meetings, counted on support from San Franciscans who feared their city might suffer the fate of New York. A four-day police and firemen's strike in August showed citizens how determined unions might bully a city into submission. Over the supervisors' protests, outgoing Mayor Joseph Alioto finally caved in and granted raises...
...lifestyle." At the U.N., the Group of 77 has proposed that the First World double or triple its financial-aid contributions. Such capital transfers, moreover, should no longer be voluntary, but mandated-perhaps by a tax on commodities. Under this proposed "new order," national currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and German mark, would be phased out as reserves held by central banks. In their place would be the Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R.s) issued by the International Monetary Fund. The principle governing distribution of the S.D.R.s should not be maintenance of international monetary stability, as it is now, but promotion...
...familiar: Mass Pike, through the middle of Connecticut, New Haven, Bridgeport, the Bronx. Northern Connecticut is the prettiest part; the Connecticut coast is old and industrial. Outside of New York City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where they sell silver-dollar-size hamburgers for fifteen cents each. The traffic is bad and the view uninspiring on the George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that...
Multimillion-dollar movies are usually open to the press as they are being made; their heavy tread can be heard clumping toward the theaters for a year prior to release. Kubrick's locations, however, were closed. Not a single publicity still emerged without the director's express approval, which was almost never granted. Thus the only word on Barry Lyndon came from actors and technicians, none of them privy to Kubrick's vision, and some wearied and literally sickened by his obsessive perfectionism...