Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little vacationing soldier boys in Germany. The U.S. military is totally overpaid and pampered. I've had occasions to observe our soldiers' behavior in Germany, both married and unmarried; and in most cases, if not plain ignorant, it's shabby. Many Germans are totally fed up with the ill-disciplined, prideless people we call the military...
Meanwhile. Blumenthal phoned Burns and said the two had better reschedule a previously planned Wednesday lunch for an earlier hour. They met at 11:45 a.m. in the Fed Chairman's private dining room and agreed on a joint 1:15 p.m. announcement that the U.S. was going into the markets. Blumenthal immediately communicated the decision to Carter. The President had been getting an earful about the dollar on his tour from King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran...
...seemed at first; the rally that followed the Treasury-Fed announcement was one for the record books. On Thursday morning in Zurich, the dollar opened 1% up in value against the Swiss franc from the previous day. the sharpest overnight dollar rise ever recorded there. In Frankfurt, where the dollar had sagged to a record low of 2.07 marks during its autumn-long slide, it abruptly recovered to nearly 2.16, also a record rise. In Tokyo. where the dollar had fallen to a postwar low of 237 yen on Wednesday, it promptly rebounded...
...picture would be less grim were there truth in the frequently made statement that we are the best-fed nation in the world. The falsity of this statement is shown by the fact that seven men must now be drafted to obtain two physically and mentally fit for service; and that, although the standards of fitness have been greatly reduced with each war, the number of unfit has steadily increased... --Adelle Davis, in Let's Cook It Right...
...Eagles' Army drew the opening face-off back to 6'3", 210 lb. defenseman Augustine who fed winger Ewanouski, breaking into the Harvard zone. With just seven seconds expired in the period, Ewanouski, a freshman from Brookline and Choate, drilled a wrist shot past Harvard goalie Hynes...