Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your "Greenbacks Under the Gun" [Aug. 28] was almost a true account of our disastrous situation. Your list of things the U.S. "could do" is an exercise in futility. Buy up dollars aggressively with what? More I.O.U.s? More Treasury debt certificates? Freshly printed greenbacks? Sell our gold? What will that do but ruin the price of gold without even touching our foreign and domestic deficits? Sure, sell at the market and we could pay the foreign deficits for a couple of years, and then what? What pol would vote to raise interest rates far enough to put us into...
...surrounded by prizes: brown vinyl reclining chairs, rattan porch furniture, a turquoise side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, a hairy purple stuffed dog, a pair of TV sets-stacked one atop the other-two imitation art nouveau lamps. An avocado-colored Ford Maverick Grabber parked in the driveway and the gold-patterned floor in the sun porch were won in contests. Piled in a hallway is some yet unpacked booty: a set of West Bend serving dishes, a Lionel racing set with a "hoop of fire," a CB radio and antenna...
When U.S. companies first began moving into South Africa during the gold rush of the 1880s, they not only saw their market as the country's whites (now about 16% of the 28 million population) but they also employed whites almost exclusively. In those days the white Americans, still imbued with their own pioneering heritage, identified strongly with the Dutch-descended Afrikaners, who were also frontier people. That attitude continued in the post-World War II years as newly arriving U.S. firms brought technology and industrial development to South Africa. Yet by the late 1960s, as whites deserted factories...
Southern Florida's Gold Coast, a narrow strip of sun-drenched sand and aging hotels that stretches north from Miami Beach, has fallen on bad times: the beaches have been slipping into the Atlantic and the tourists are slipping north to Disney World and south to Caribbean casinos. So some of the area's businessmen have been pressing hard for the legalization of casino gambling, a matter voters will decide in a Nov. 7 referendum...
...newspapers have no immediate financial interest in opposing casino gambling. Indeed, papers around the Gold Coast would probably gain from any casino-induced economic revival. So why did the publishers ante up? "We want to participate on the local level with other Florida businesses that see the serious social and economic dangers of casino gambling," says Miami Herald President Alvah Chapman Jr., who was designated by Governor Askew to be a chief fund raiser for the fight. Says Orlando Sentinel Star Editor James Squires, "This just happens to be a case of a newspaper putting its money where its mouth...