Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mini-revolution of last May had eaten up a sizable share of France's gold reserves, as enormous amounts of consumer goods had to be imported, but it had by no means exhausted them. Relative to France's GNP or her international trade, they were still adequate in comparison with those of other nations, even the U.S. and other western European nations. True, the wage increases conceded last spring had triggered an eleven per cent increase in prices that would certainly affect France's balance of payments. But it was far from obvious that it would plunge France, consistently...
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients. Balancing taste and excruciating intimacy, the camera team now details the last days and thoughts of Albro Pearsall, 52, a Manhattan gold smelter dying of lung cancer...
...reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid memory link with the adobe hut and the Alamo. Aided by the Ford Foundation ($2,400,000) and bolstering that grant with $900,000 from the pocketed dimes of children as well as the black gold of oil, the people of Houston have much more to show for the money than a structure of civic pride. They have that unique treasure, a native home of the spirit...
...Expand international monetary reserves, which have become too thin to support the expanding volume of world trade. Since the recent humbling of the franc, France may be more willing than before to support the quick creation of the "special drawing rights." The SDRs are a form of "paper gold" that would be dispensed by the International Monetary Fund to supplement real gold, dollars and pounds in bankrolling trade and investment...
...live and draw a flow of gold. From a dead father's reservoir of rich es. I retreat further and further back. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." These are the thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...