Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dollar Brand--Lulu White Supper Club...
Since oil sales are priced in dollars, strong-currency countries like Japan and West Germany can afford to pay the high costs. The declining value of the dollar has made oil relatively cheaper in yen or marks than it was only a few years ago. If other OPEC countries now decide to follow Iran's lead, even going so far as to break existing contracts with oil companies, the dollar price of a barrel of crude could surge to unimagined heights...
...worth fretting about at all. In an unseemly intramural squabble, Department of Energy officials kept pressing the White House to make a strong statement on the need to conserve oil supplies, while Treasury aides urged that the President say nothing for fear of spooking currency dealers abroad into dumping dollars. Yet it seemed more likely that a determined U.S. policy to conserve would strengthen the dollar by showing the world that the nation was taking steps to correct its trade deficit...
...February sweeps, nearly every night was a blockbusting Sunday, a succession of multimillion-dollar explosions from the networks. Viewers were both delighted and frustrated, but what the TV schedule really showed was an industry in chaos, with each network going all out to knock off the other two. The pyrotechnics from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar...
...fear that they might be confiscated under court orders. Now the U.S. has agreed to free blocked Chinese bank accounts totaling $80.5 million, and Peking has agreed to pay just that amount against 384 separate American claims totaling $196.9 million. The China payout is about 41? on the dollar, a settlement that is high by the standards of other similar U.S.-Communist pacts, but which is worth only about 15? per dollar in 1949 terms. The pact will permit the U.S. to help China with its development plan...