Word: frozenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nearly all the currency printed or minted by the U.S. remains physically inside the U.S., but an estimated $750 billion in legal claims on that money are held by foreign governments, corporations and individuals as so-called Eurodollar accounts overseas. Many of those accounts, including the bulk of the frozen Iranian assets, are located in the foreign branches and subsidiaries of U.S. banks. The funds are not under the jurisdiction of Washington at all, but of the banks' host countries. The key country is Britain, the major center for the Eurodollar market; banks in Paris, Frankfurt and Geneva also...
...businessmen preferred to export products to Iran or to provide services in exchange for cash on the barrelhead. The Commerce Department estimates that U.S. real estate and other assets in Iran amount to only about $300 million. U.S. businessmen can file claims against the Tehran government's frozen $6 billion to compensate for the assets they stand to lose in Iran...
...inflation, Eastern style. Even those governments that admit to a low level of "inflation" cook the books and obscure the situation with huge state subsidies that hold down prices of certain essentials. The Soviet Union will spend about $31 billion this year to restrain the retail price of food; frozen turkey sells at $1.81 per lb. and milk at 20? a pint. It will also spend $7.5 billion to hold average monthly electricity and heating bills to $4.50 and the monthly rent for a standard three-room apartment...
...apple pie is to America R.F. D., what Walt Disney is to puerile pubescents, and what cocaine is to the Studio 54 crowd--Pinocchio's pizza is to me. Fair Harvard, can't you grant one last wish to an embittered senior, before he ventures off into that frozen wasteland, that tasteless tundra, of Gino's shake 'n bake pizza...
...film is not entirely cliché-free. The character played by Mason is a fairly standard woman-doctor stereotype: pretty but prim, with deep-frozen attitudes toward men and a sharp tongue, at first, for the handsome radiologist (Michael Brandon) who wants to cuddle. Oddly, it is the teen-age romance that escapes stereotype: the scenes between Buffy and her boyfriend (Paul Clemens) are remarkably real and touching. In balance, the film is decent and compassionate, and truthful enough not to disguise too much the fact that truth can hurt terribly. -John Skow