Word: drainings
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...disappointingly high rate of 7%. Wholesale prices jumped .8% in the same month, the biggest increase since April and an augury that inflation's rate might be quickening. Reflecting similar worries, the Federal Reserve System again stepped hard on the monetary brakes by selling Government securities to drain bank reserves and raise the cost of borrowing. With oil imports propelling the U.S. balance of trade deficit toward an alarming $30 billion this year, the dollar last week skidded sharply against the Japanese yen, the West German mark and the Swiss franc. "Economically," conceded a White House aide...
...Luisa (Cathy Weary) demands an audience steeped in bad musicals to be funny. Out of historical context, the parody is too broad to be effective. Even the attempts at self-parody in the second act are unsubtle, and we keep wishing someone on stage will pull the plug, drain the syrup, and dazzle us with fast comebacks and some naked sarcasm...
...sizable a force could not seal off the waterway's lock mechanisms, dams and power plants from some kind of sabotage. A band of skilled terrorists, for example, could approach the Gatun Dam through the dense jungle with relative ease. Properly placed explosives could blow up the dam, drain the water that is required to operate the locks and put the whole canal out of commission for as long as two years. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "If I were a guerrilla backed by Fidel Castro or somebody...
...strong current of political expediency runs below the surface of Congress's push for civil rights for the aged. Legislators could attempt to use the new forced retirement law to eliminate pressure for the reform of the Social Security system, Later retirements would help curtail the drain on Social Security as well as ease the burden on private sector pension funds...
...centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat's chest so one has to drain it all down at once...