Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This has been a familiar story for the '88 version of the Bosox. Despite the recent run in June (which, by the way, occurred primarily against a badly slumping Cleveland Indians team and a horrible group of misfits wearing Baltimore Orioles uniforms) and a fast start, the Sox have basically been a very inconsistent team that has yet to live up to its pre-season billing. Too often, solid outings by Messrs. Clemens, Hurst, Boyd, Sellars, etc. have been wasted by a lack of timely hitting...
DESCRIPTION: Yen per dollar, monthly averages, August 1987-June 1988; daily figures, June...
...persuaded many currency speculators that a declining dollar was no longer warranted. But they lacked the confidence to bid up the currency because they feared the U.S. and other industrial countries might simply intervene in the markets and put the dollar back in its lowly place. In late June, however, that perception changed sharply. At their Toronto economic summit meeting, the leaders of the seven major industrialized countries, or G-7, issued a communique that showed no distinct resolve to fight a dollar rally, saying only that an increase in the currency's value "could be counterproductive." Traders took that...
...poor-to-very-poor condition. In Chicago the news that scattered showers were sprinkling the blistered Plains and Midwest created a near panic in the commodity pits as traders rushed to retreat from the sky-high futures prices they had been paying during the bone-dry days of late June...
Most notably for consumers, the cost of food is going up. The Government reported last week that prices paid to farmers for grain crops rose 3.7% in June alone, after increasing 6.1% during the first five months of the year. Since January, soybean futures prices have risen from $4.70 per bu. to more than $10, and traders are talking about "beans in the teens" by year's end, which would break the record high of $12.90 reached during a shortage in 1973. As a result, the Department of Agriculture now estimates that food prices will rise between...