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...concluded a deal that was revealed early last week. West Germany will lend the U.S. an additional $2 billion worth of deutsche marks that Washington can use to buy up surplus dollars on the exchange markets. That doubles the Treasury's line of credit at the West German central bank in Frankfurt. In addition, the U.S. may sell $740 million worth of IMF Special Drawing Rights ("paper gold") to the Germans for deutsche marks, and it proposes to borrow as much as $5 billion of foreign currencies from the IMF. That $5 billion credit already existed. Hence...
Wilson, a strong supporter of the core, expressed confidence that the Faculty would vote to adopt the core. The ambiguous poll results, however lend encouragement to both sides in the debate...
...Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend your car to. Dogs and small children would like...
...knew it would happen, and when the clamor had died down, He proclaimed, "We have arrived. Come, reach out and join me in my pilgrimmage. All lend a hand...
Muhammad Ali has caused inflammations of metaphysical prose in a number of writers; perhaps the urge ought to be resisted. But sport and play can lend themselves to extravagant speculations, and Ali is one of the most abundantly complicated figures in the history of games. His career in boxing has of course been totally entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only...