Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline of the dollar has compelled the Federal Government to dip deeply into its own Fort Knox reserves in its efforts to prop the faltering currency. Since early 1975, the Treasury has been holding periodic gold auctions in an 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...
...good commercial bet," wrote Lurton Blassingame. "We regret that we do not have the time here to read unsolicited fiction," explained James Brown. Candida Donadio & Associates demurred with, "When all is said and done, we felt the manuscript lacked that all-important dramatic tension." And from the office of Knox Burger after two follow-up letters from Ross: "I'm very sorry, but we have no record of having received your MS. or postage.' Kosinski is philosophical about the fact that his award-winning, experimental novel rang no bells: "Thank God it means different things to different people...
...constantly dieting, jogging and going to football games like a lot of other Americans, will manage $199.4 billion, which by itself exceeds the budget of every other organizational entity on the face of the earth with the exception of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Fort Knox, repository of the world's gold, never at its peak (1942) had such wealth in its vaults (the 445.3 million oz. of gold in Fort Knox in 1942 would be worth a mere $104 billion even at today's prices...
...Americans, in fact, a full-scale retrospective show has long been needed to set in view the osmotic Nicholson exchange between the worlds of natural and abstract form. Now, for the first time, one has been mounted. Organized last fall by Chief Curator Steven Nash at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, it will be at Washington's Hirshhorn Museum until...
Even if cults are not especially inhibited by the law, they do meet with other kinds of resistance. For example, they have not enjoyed notable success in many parts of the American Midwest. Explains Arthur McKay, former pastor of Cincinnati's Knox Presbyterian Church: "We are on the edge of the Bible Belt and have fairly conservative fundamentalists in quite substantial numbers. Kids who find the so-called liberalism of the mainline churches not to their liking already have available alternatives." Where a religious or secular structure with strong values exists, the cults have less opportunity to make converts...