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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy passed 12 people in the last half-mile, sprinting by three in the home stretch. Meanwhile, Moulton kept chipping away at the slots still ahead of him, moving into 31st...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Qualify for NCAA Title Run | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...case, the steps Carter finally took last week could no longer be put off. Many economists and foreign moneymen had been urging them for months. But Carter was obviously worried about the dangers of recession and unemployment, and so he kept convincing himself that the dollar might be miraculously rescued by an improvement in the U.S. trade deficit (down from almost $3 billion in July to $1.7 billion in September), by passage of the long awaited and much battered energy and tax-cut bills, and by the President's Stage II anti-inflation program of wage-price guidelines. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...dollar would continue to fall. Immediately after the IMF meeting, Blumenthal assigned Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon to meet secretly with Fed Chairman G. William Miller and plan what to do in a "worst case" of threatened dollar collapse. Solomon, Miller and two aides met regularly through October but kept their planning secret: Washington was still hoping that Stage II would give the markets confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...much press attention, the longtime bootlegger, drug king, racketeer and killer never reached the top. Law enforcement officials figure that Lillo now will be lucky just to keep on living and that his best chance of doing so rests upon protection from federal agents-the hated enemies who have kept him locked up for more than 20 years, one-third of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why Lillo Is Lying Low | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Brustein came to Harvard several months ago to propose a dramatic "institute"--a combined graduate and undergraduate school to be headquartered at the Loeb. Harvard administrators rejected the idea then, but Brustein kept plugging...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Act I, Scene ii | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

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