Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week the price of the mystical metal, which historically rises on uncertainty and lack of faith in paper money, shot up $12.45 in three days and broke the $300-per-oz. barrier. It reached a record $303.85 before settling back slightly at week's end to just below $299. But the decline could well be temporary. Says Hans-Joachim Schreiber, the chief trader of West Germany's Dresdner Bank, which has been the biggest buyer at recent U.S. Treasury gold auctions: "There are no forces working to depress the gold price...
...happen next. Deprived of top-level advice, foreign money managers followed their instincts and bought some dollars to head off any major upset in the international exchange markets. The Federal Reserve Board also poured some $2 billion into the foreign exchanges to buy dollars, and at week's end the slide was stemmed. Still, in the past month the dollar has lost roughly 5% of its value against the West German mark, Swiss franc, French franc and British pound...
...that end the contradictions in Carter's policy...
Once the rules are mailed out by the Department of Energy at the end of this month, the managers of the 5 million affected buildings will have an additional 30 days in which to file requests to be exempted from compliance. So many reasonable exceptions to the 78° standard are written into the regulations that much of the complaining may well disappear. While restaurant owners, for example, have been among the loudest protesters, they will be considered in compliance if the temperature in their hottest room is no higher than 78°. Thus if the kitchen is no less...
...guardsmen who had been in fear of their lives. "Don't cry, brother," said an elderly guerrilla to a frightened young guardsman; he had threatened to kill himself with a hand grenade if he was not permitted to board an emergency flight out of the country. In the end, he lay down the grenade and fell, sobbing, into his former enemy's arms...