Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordanian terrorists proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks-one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment was removed from his brain...
...signer. We all watched while she whipped her pencil past three important houses ("They're closed now, but you can look in the windows."), quickly pointed out other important places, and started flipping through another book. She said that the other book explained everything and cost only a dollar. One of us naively asked why the "three important houses" were important, only to find out that the front of the pamphlet explained that and the pamphlet cost only a quarter...
...with a shrewdness close to genius. He sensed disaster approaching in 1929 and well extricated himself from the stock market before the crash. He made at least $1,000,000 by selling short when the panic came. "Only a fool," he told a friend, "holds out for the top dollar." Foreseeing the end of Prohibition, he cornered the franchise for Gordon's gin and several Scotch whiskies, imported thousands of cases "for medicinal purposes." When repeal came, Kennedy warehouses were bulging and ready for business...
...gift (an 18th century Hispano-Moorish vase valued at $25) in 1926, and remained a generous benefactor till his death in September at the age of 76. In his will Tannahill made his personal choices public by giving his favorite museum a last and most munificent gift: his multimillion-dollar private collection, including a life-size Renoir nude, seven Cezanne oils, five major Picassos and an important collection of African sculpture...
...Administration has sound reason to bolster the nation's exports. In the long run, the strength of the dollar greatly depends on that effort. The U.S. trade surplus used to average $5 billion a year. This year the surplus will total less than $1 billion, mainly because imports have risen 50% over the past three years, twice as fast as exports. Much of the blame can be laid to U.S. inflation, but not all of it. Farm exports have fallen sharply, largely because Common Market countries have unloaded surplus grain, chickens and other produce abroad at subsidized prices...