Word: golds
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...setback to that progress is taken with grave seriousness. During the 1997 crisis, office workers, too ashamed to tell their families they had lost their jobs, donned business suits each morning only to hide out in the mountainside parks around Seoul. Middle-aged women turned over their gold jewelry to the government in a futile attempt to restock its empty coffers. Today, President Lee Myung Bak has called on that same spirit of self-sacrifice to pull the country through the current crisis. At a meeting of his Cabinet in October, Lee said that the public should "join forces with...
...liabilities, more than twice the country's GDP. The next step will be to ensure credit gets to Ireland's good-quality businesses over the next year or two, says Davy's White. On Grafton Street, Weir & Sons is among the luckier ones. It owns its black-and-gold-fronted store, so at least it doesn't have to worry about rent. And its prime location makes the shop popular with tourists. McDowell, for all his worries, remains bullish about Ireland's long-term prospects. "We're a very small, very young country," he says. "It doesn't take much...
...Bush years weren’t splendid times for many people—economic turmoil, wars, that incident with the pretzel—but they were comedy gold. Not since Dan Quayle has America had such a prominently placed source of continual gaffes. Back during the 2000 campaign, when people based their presidential choices on whimsical criteria like “Someone I’d Like To Have A Beer With” or “I Couldn’t Figure Out How the Ballot Worked,” everyone laughed incredulously at the slow but steady...
...extravagance. Other items showed the abandoned Harvard custom wherein younger students served upperclassmen their meals on a twice-daily basis. The exhibit’s final theme, “Rule (Breaking) and Religion,” established unapproved behavior as a long-standing temptation for Harvard undergraduates. Gold buttons and pewter jewelry, dug from the dirt between Matthews and Grays, showed that Harvard students were more than willing to break the College’s Puritan “modesty” laws for the sake of good fashion. Alcohol and tobacco were also widely consumed by early Harvardians...
...February. It guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America. There were rumors, as he left Washington, that he had been arrested trying to escape aboard Andrew Mellon's yacht with the gold he had raided from Fort Knox...