Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greenback, the U.S. Government, in close cooperation with leading foreign central banks, should step in and buy large quantities of dollars on world markets. This would require assembling a vast war chest of funds to show currency speculators that Washington has the money to back up that policy. Two fast and impressive steps would be increasing sales from the nation's $60 billion gold reserves, as former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns suggests, and enlarging the so-called swap network of dollar defense funds from $25 billion to $100 billion, as Senator Jacob Javits proposes...
...steelmakers to join in such projects. To stop the alarming erosion of America's capital base he contends, companies should be permitted to take their full depreciation allowances within one year-so long as they invest them all-instead of being obliged to stretch them over many years. Fast depreciation would cost the Treasury some tax revenues, but only for the first year. After that, tax collections would go up because profits would rise- and so would investments...
...Play. But Screenwriter Reginald Rose, best known for TV's Twelve Angry Men and The Defenders, is not Mr. Light Touch. The film's only flair comes from Director Lamont Johnson, who tries to force-feed sophistication into the proceedings. Johnson has shot the film at a fast pace in romantic Manhattan locations, and he has recruited outstanding stage actors, notably John Wood and John Glover, for the secondary roles. He provides at least the illusion of slickness...
...goin' out today," he says. "It's too wet out for this leg. I'm going to fast, and read my Bible...
Gossage held the mighty slugger at bay with his carbon-copy fast balls, forcing a sacrifice fly to right for the second...