Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against Manufacturers Hanover's policies. If President Bok really does "abhor apartheid," he will not allow this delay to occur, and we will soon be reading in The Crimson that Harvard has sold these bonds. Otherwise, we will know that his statements on apartheid are merely hollow rhetoric. We hope everyone will be watching. --Southern African Solidarity Committee
...those who went so far as to sell short in dollars, last week's U.S. measures proved expensive. "We sure hope that we mousetrap some bastards with this," gloated one White House senior aide. And although traders named no names, they indicated that some speculators had been hurt. Said a veteran money dealer in Brussels: "One or two companies got their fingers burned right up to their armpits...
...Friday morning, Oct. 27, less than three days after the Stage II speech, it was obvious that the hope was in vain. Blumenthal phoned Carter and told him that something had to be done immediately to save the dollar.* The two huddled privately that afternoon following a Cabinet meeting. Carter told the Secretary to accelerate the planning but maintain deepest secrecy...
...confusion continued last week. Even as the President was announcing the program that the financial markets had been waiting to hear, some Administration officials most unwisely expressed hope that dollar-buying intervention on the currency exchanges would be necessary only for six months or so; fortunately, nobody noticed much. Kahn, on a TV interview show, was asked whether he would support mandatory wage-price controls if necessary to avoid a recession. He said he would, contradicting a year of Administration insistence that it would never consider controls in a situation short of war or a comparable national emergency. By week...
...This is being spread from person to person, and we hope to limit any outbreak within the individual dining halls," he added...