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...financial crunch. Said Greenspan: "There might be a financial run on those countries. Lenders could pull their money out and blow a hole in the system." De Vries suggested that existing international agencies like the World Bank may have to be restructured to give them the power to funnel money quickly to nations in danger of financial collapse...
...compared with $15 million for the Democrats. The key to Republican riches has been sophisticated direct-mail solicitations. Although individual Democratic candidates tend to raise more money than Republicans, mainly because more of them are incumbents, the G.O.P's overflowing campaign treasury will allow the party to funnel dollars into close races and spend up to ten times as much as the Democrats on nationwide television...
...most intriguing American outpost is at the pole itself. Located under a giant geodesic dome, the station serves as an invaluable high-altitude (9,200 ft.) geophysical observatory. Because of the pristine quality of the air and the funnel-like shape of the earth's magnetic field at the antipodes, scientists are able to measure the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and register the influx of cosmic rays from space (a hint of solar activity) with much greater ease than at any other place on the earth's surface. The station also acts...
...astonishing sum of $26 million. Coppola had been distressed last August when Paramount showed an incomplete print to distributors and some critics; last week he explained his Radio City gamble by saying that he simply "wanted to see the film clean one time before it went into the funnel" of the distribution system. As the preview deadline neared, Coppola made last-minute changes in the film and sent them from his studio to Rome, where they were incorporated into the master print. A courier with the final print arrived in New York on Thursday at 2:30 p.m., 29 hours...
Until the story broke through the blackout, coverage of Polish events was dominated by TIME'S Bonn bureau, which relied heavily on its network of contacts in Stockholm, Vienna and Eastern Europe to funnel in information. Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, having returned from Poland four days before the crackdown, had an advantage in evaluating the scene and the fragments of data seeping in. Flamini had visited Katowice, the mining center where many of last week's clashes occurred, talked with Polish Archbishop Jozef Glemp and shared a journey from Gdansk to Warsaw, and a cup of tea, with...