Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bankers fret that other OPEC producers may take Iran's experience as a warning and begin moving their funds quietly out of dollars and into foreign currencies, gold and other assets. So far, there is no sign of that happening, nor is there likely to be. Most governments, those belonging to OPEC included, applaud the tough-minded stand that Washington has taken with the Khomeini regime...
Wall Street's bond market traditionally has been the haven for little old ladies with poodles. Unlike the frantic gold or stock exchanges, the "fixed income market" was as relaxed as a Norman Rockwell painting. On a normal day, prices might change one-sixteenth of a point...
...social director, wears so many silly getups that one might think ABC is trying to trick viewers into thinking that she is Cher. The blow-dried Chad Everett (Medical Center) is cast as a Pulitzer-prizewinning author who wears what appears to be a Pulitzer Prize medal on a gold chain around his neck. There are real French actors in the cast - Marie-France Pisier, Louis Jourdan - as well as ersatz French men like James Coco. Brooklynese is provided by Shelley Winters, who seems to have a habit of booking passage on doomed ships...
...second category: women who work out just enough to compete in body-building contests where top prize goes to the best-proportioned, shapeliest and firmest body. Women can easily take off a few pounds in the first month after they start working out, says Tim Kimber, general manager of Gold's. But to qualify for competition they must buckle down to rigorous, five-times-a-week training. "Women can actually mold their figures the way men do," says Snyder, who is not alone in his distaste for more heavily muscled women. One judge at a recent competition sent...
Women are steadily moving deeper into another once exclusive male domain -power lifting. Pam Meister, 24 and 105 Ibs., holds the current women's dead-lift record with 335 Ibs. Though some of her male colleagues at Gold's gave her a chilly reception, Meister hung tough. "I decided that I had to let them know this wasn't some kind of joke for me," she says, "so I dead-lifted 300 Ibs. three times. Since then it's been downhill...