Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penn's Karl Thornton won the mile in a very fast 4:07.3. Army's Bob Curran finished second at 4:08.8 while Brown's Tim Cosgrove took third...
...with currency that no one would take, the tension at the emergency meeting of finance ministers -last week's international monetary crisis was certainly the worst since World War II. Even so, its true gravity could not be gauged by those factors alone. Precipitated by German Economics Minister Karl Schiller in order to get European agreement on new monetary measures, the upheaval at first seemed artificial and contrived. But it quickly became a pointed revolt against the U.S. dollar, the foundation stone of the whole system of Western finance. For the first time, much of the world, in effect...
Died. Dr. Karl Blessing, 71, former president of West Germany's Bundesbank; of a heart attack; in Rasteau, France. An advocate of tight-money policies, Blessing first rose to national prominence as the youngest member of the directorate of Hitler's Reichsbank, a post he lost in 1939 for opposing the Führer's rearmament policies as inflationary. As Bundesbank president from 1958 to 1969, he fought tenaciously for the stability of the mark during his country's 1966-67 recession and carried out a 9% upward revaluation of the mark...
Consolidated Edison is the once imperious power utility that New Yorkers used to call "the company you love to hate." Now it is so beset that even Karl Marx might shed crocodile tears. Crippled by failing machinery, blocked by conservationists in its plans to build allegedly dangerous nuclear power plants, Con Ed can barely meet the city's ever rising power demands...
...once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...