Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Africa and Russia, the main gold producers, and punish friendly nations that have held their reserves in dollars, trusting U.S. vows never to devalue. But a price boost of the size now being talked about-as little as 5%, to $36.75 per oz.-would be a bitter joke to speculators, who could have gained far more in interest alone by investing in something other than gold. A $36.75 official quote also would be well below the prices that South Africa and Russia can get now on Europe's free gold markets; last week's gold price...
...joke making the rounds in Washington, alluding to a recent movie title, has the Emperor asking: "Who is Richard Nixon and why is he doing those terrible things to my country...
This go-round, Van Dyke is cast as the host of a TV talk show in Phoenix, Ariz.; Hope Lange, after two seasons of sublimation in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, plays Mary Tyler Moore. In the witless premiere, Van Dyke was stuck with one joke, and one as grizzled as his new sideburns: the recidivism of reformed smokers. But the second episode-concerning the humiliation of a local-station headliner screen-testing for a network slot-portended a return to form by TV's consummate situation comedian and by the series' witty "creative consultant," Carl Reiner...
...issue of rent control also got a strong going-over by the candidates, who declared the present rent control administration anywhere from "not so hot" to "just one big joke." Day care and drug addiction also attracted much of the candidates' attention...
...joke. We have something better planned for later," he said...