Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When news bulletins of the Cabinet shuffle reached Europe, the telephone on the desk of Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, who handles day-to-day defense of the dollar, began ringing incessantly. European central bankers and Finance Ministry officials demanded to know what was going on. Solomon could not provide inside information on what would happen next. Deprived of top-level advice, foreign money managers followed their instincts and bought some dollars to head off any major upset in the international exchange markets. The Federal Reserve Board also poured some $2 billion into the foreign exchanges to buy dollars...
...Jimmy Carter now at work behind the closed White House doors is not the Jimmy Carter we grew to know in the first 30 months of his presidency. It is true that he was from the beginning a somewhat elusive figure. But at the center there was a man of regular habits, kindly ways and comfortable personal characteristics. He did warn us last week that he was going to change "my life-style and my way of working." But the events of this week represent more than that...
...complex verification issue. As a former astronaut with some firsthand knowledge of how highly sophisticated electronic devices work-or fail -Glenn is looked to for guidance on verification by many of his Senate colleagues. Said Glenn last week: "I want to vote for SALT, but I want to know that the Soviets are living up to it." He believes that the loss of the Iranian posts left the U.S. with no way of sufficiently monitoring Soviet missile testing. He fears that the U.S. will have more trouble intercepting Soviet telemetry, the performance data beamed back to earth by the test...
...tools and construction machinery. Says Julian Ward, vice president at Houston's Brown & Root construction firm: "Any company with design-engineering and construction capability is going to have a part of this thing-it's so big. The spending would sop up the entire U.S. petrochemical-engineering know-how. No one should be disappointed if only half of the program comes to pass...
Carter's plan leaves many questions unanswered. Nobody in Washington seems to know how much energy would be expended just to build the plants, roads, railroads, machines and tools needed to create the synfuels industry-and how much time would pass before the U.S. realized a net energy gain. Simply building the necessary infrastructure will chew up years. Yet the payoff in the form of oil and gas could be so enormous that the U.S. might, some decades hence, become again an exporter of energy. The U.S. has an enormous potential lode of synthetic fuel, and the growing consensus...