Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt both to drive down the metal's price and to improve the appalling U.S. balance of payments deficit. The auctions benefit the trade balance because gold sales to foreigners are counted as exports. The International Monetary Fund has also been conducting monthly auctions, but the dollar has kept plunging anyway. In fact, a key element of President Carter's November rescue plan, which finally succeeded in bringing at least the semblance of stability back to the dollar, was an agreement to double the amount of the Treasury's monthly auctions, to 1.5 million...
...closing minutes, play-making guard Larry Zigerelli, not known for his scoring punch (he averages 1.5 pts. per game), began to amaze the Yale fans by scoring four of his 10 points, connecting from outside 20 feet with arching knuckleball shots that kept the Elis within two points...
Giff Duffy kept the score one-sided with several splendid saves during the game. In all, Duffy turned back 33 Red Raider shots...
...world. It is far preferable that Harvard put even illegitimate earnings (as from apartheid) to a good cause (a school for public servants or a chair in Third World studies) than that it be reinvested in those illegitimate enterprises. By these criteria, the Engelhard Foundation's money could be kept, but the name must be changed--the motive behind the gift may have been pure, but its effect is to make legitimate (to future public servants and the public) America's complicity in apartheid...
Sophomore John Murphy kept the fast pace set by Sheehan and captured the 1500, a race that is just a little under Murphy's traditional specialty--the mile...