Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollars aggressively to support their price, and urge foreign central banks to do the same. The Federal Reserve moved into the currency markets late last week, but the government banks of West Germany, Switzerland and Japan scarcely acted at all. Their position is that they have spent billions in the past to support the dollar, with only momentary success. But they might be persuaded to resume support if the dollar buying were combined with other actions, and the U.S. showed greater willingness to intervene...
...chief boon for the companies has been higher productivity. Staffers are still close enough to Manhattan to run in for a Broadway play but are spared the drudgery of daily commuting. They no longer wander in late because of railroad tie-ups, and they tend to stay to clean up the day's work rather than flee at the stroke of 5 p.m. to catch the next train. Some firms have even been able to lengthen their formal work week. The Olin Corp., whose 1969 move from Manhattan to Stamford led off the exodus to Fairfield County...
BORN. To Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 30, younger daughter of former President Richard Nixon, and David Eisenhower, 30, grandson of late President Dwight Eisenhower: a daughter, their first child; in San Clemente, Calif. Name: Jennie...
...each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years ago, and this year became a permanent team, ampersand and all. Audiences are now joining in their laughter. That kind of light humor called improvisation, which died out in the dark days of the late '60s, is back, as welcome as ever...
...stubbornness was justified. Late in 1965 a Putnam editor stopped in at Magazine Management's offices, overheard Puzo telling Mafia yarns and offered a $5,000 advance for a book about the Italian underworld. The rest is publishing history?and American sociology. Puzo's saga of blood and money, treachery and revenge, class injury and ferocious pride, is one of the most gripping stories in modern popular fiction. Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became...