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Last night in Yale's Payne-Whitney gymnasium, though, things got a bit sticky toward the end, and the Crimson had to wait till overtime to dump the Elis...
...been strong because some holders of gold are selling the metal out of fear that it now faces a long slide. The U.S. Treasury estimates that 14,000 to 16,000 tons of gold, worth about $240 billion at current prices, are in private hands worldwide. If the goldbugs dump only a small portion of their holdings and buy dollars, that transaction can have a very large impact on both the price of gold and the value of the American currency...
...make decisions that might affect their own financial interests. The 1978 act puts real teeth into that idea, requiring a more detailed disclosure of assets and thus opening up a broad range of hitherto ignored potential conflicts. In addition, the new law makes it much harder for officials to dump their holdings into a blind trust. Under that arrangement, a trustee exercises control over the assets, theoretically shielding the officeholder from conflicts of interest. Yet these devices tended to be what former Senator Abe Ribicoff called "blind trusts with 20/20 vision." The official often knew what he held...
Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...
...will begin only if Valerie Talmege, state archaeologist, considers the site to be archaeologically valuable. Rubbish trucked in from other areas to the dump site may cause problems in determining the origins of artifacts from the site. Talmege said last week, adding that this could be a reason for her not to approve...