Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the precise terms of the agreement have not been made public, Japan is believed to have freed the yen to make it more available for trading on international currency markets. Tokyo will also reduce restrictions on the outflow of the yen and improve the access of foreign banks to the Japanese money market. That means other nations can reduce some of their dollar holdings and start acquiring yen deposits, which should drive up the currency's price in the process...
...year or so everything works as planned, and although some visitors cannot endure the strict regime, others are indeed returned to their homes much strengthened and freed of such Jewish characteristics as smoking, card playing and endless, idle conversation. But Balaban himself, strong and idealistic as he is, weakens under the strain of supporting the project psychologically and financially. He allows himself to be drawn into the eternal argumentation, coffee drinking and poker games. Revealing gestures that he rooted out of his nervous system as a young man begin to reappear. He puts on weight. From time to time...
...book takes the reader along an imaginary road, five thousand miles along-a crescent along the fringes of the Amazon watershed. The road was sketched out by Peruvian President Belaunde, for whom it was part of a vision of a prosperous, developed core of a continent that would have freed itself of social turmoil. The reader can only hope that Kandell's vision, like Belaunde's, can be realized...
...late afternoon about half of them were gone, freed from their captivity by covetous passersby, and most of the rest had stirred from their original positions...
Within weeks of the arrests, almost half of those felons were back on the street, having been released on bail, freed on then" own recognizance or placed on probation. The irony is that many of them had been arrested because they had previously jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or failed to show up in court to face earlier charges. Among the newly liberated: a 25-year-old Oakland man with 26 earlier arrests for grand theft and selling narcotics; a 22-year-old woman accused of forcible rape, prostitution and committing lewd acts with children; and a 21-year...