Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their partisans will be prominent in the 1 p.m. "gold rush" today, when campaign workers are allowed to race each other to the best locations for posters in Springfield's Civic Center. D'Amico is reportedly spending $17,000 on the convention. Murphy, whose campaign is better financed, will probably spend more to woo delegates...
This is the one that if an oarsman wins, he stands on the dock sipping champagne, as up to fifteen competitors who just weren't as fast heap their racing shirts on his shoulder. You even get a gold medal...
...took World War I to bring Keynes to fulfillment. As an adviser in the Treasury, he began to develop Keynesian ideas--for example, that the "main use of gold reserves is to be used." The artist manque appeared. Keynes began to regard money the way a painter looks at his palette. Understanding that currency confronts human beings with two great alternatives--hoarding or gambling--the sometime player at Monte Carlo defined money as "that which one accepts only to get rid of it." He raised monetary theory to poetry when he described money as "a subtle device for linking...
...major characters in the novel are purely fictional. Oppenheimer, Fuchs, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves and other walk-ons bear the names of actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold and the Rosenbergs with atomic secrets...
Needham ($847 million) is the smallest of the three, but it brings a strong domestic network to the merger. Some industry wags saw a resemblance between Needham's role in the deal and its Wheaties ads, in which pint-size Olympic Gold Medalist Mary Lou Retton gulps down cereal with the "big boys." Doyle Dane Bernbach ($1.7 billion) has the most to gain. After scoring numerous hits over the years with ads for longtime client Volkswagen, the agency attracted notice with its beguiling babies series for Michelin tires. But DDB lost several major clients in 1985, dropping $45 million...