Word: goldings
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...against the dollar in the past six months. But the recent dismal economic news is threatening to weaken it further. This past week the dong jumped from 16,120 to the dollar to 18,500 on the black market as traders rushed to put their dong into dollars and gold. The currency swoon makes imports, from food to commodities, more expensive. Jocelyn Tran, whose Ho Chi Minh City company contracts with local factories to supply apparel to U.S. stores, says the price of Chinese-made yarn has jumped 15% this year. "Our factories are absorbing it by cutting...
...That's precisely what has happened at Facebook during the past year. A kind of gold rush took hold as developer after developer started writing simple applications. As of June 1, some 24,000 programs - ranging from simple social gestures, like the ability to virtually poke a friend, to fully formed games like Scrabulous - were available to Facebook's users. Expect loads more. Facebook has given out its API keys - the code that developers need to access Facebook's platform-an astounding 400,000 times, many more than even Zuckerberg expected...
...success. Richardson and Olson carried their momentum from cross country through the indoor and outdoor seasons.The outdoor Heps were highlighted by Olson’s anchoring of the 4x800-meter relay team, during which she overtook the Cornell runner in the home stretch to give the relay squad the gold medal with a time of 8:56.70.In the same meet, Chenoweth fell down late in the 5000-meter run, but picked himself up after dropping to last place and made his way back to the front of the pack—at one point taking the lead—before...
...Regionals there were those who shined and others who fell flat in qualifying to perform on the national stage. In the end, the Crimson sent 10 fencers to New Haven to compete in the NCAA tournament in March, including sophomore epeeist Billy Stallings, who took gold at the Northeast Regional competition. While only qualifying 10 of a possible 12 fencers gave Harvard almost no chance at winning, the squad managed to beat out numerous other schools for sixth behind All-American performances from saberists senior Alexa Weingarden, freshman Alexandra Sneider, and senior Steve Ahn, as well as senior epeeist Teddy...
...answer dismays almost all visitors - whose view of Americans, of course, also come from movies. In a room packed with such priceless gifts as the solid-gold replica of mosque doors from Saudi Arabia and a large gold gong from Malaysia, is a small glass cabinet containing Washington's gifts: four bowls - two silver, two porcelain - bearing the White House insignia, given at various times by Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Energy Secretary Samuel Bordman. Another display shows a box of 12 autographed golf balls given to Nazarbayev by Clinton...