Word: major
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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, and at week's end the slide was stemmed. Still, in the past month the dollar has lost roughly 5% of its value against the West German mark...
Today Blumenthal is out, Lance is under indictment and Schultze might remain incapacitated for months following major surgery. The economy, meanwhile, is plagued by chronic inflation (current annual rate: 13%), has entered a recession and is suffering from a severe energy shortage...
Every time in the past couple of decades that a President has felt compelled to demonstrate to the world how tough he was we have been dragged deeper into trouble. A major cause of the Viet Nam involvement was Jack Kennedy's concern about machismo, and then Lyndon Johnson's determination to show that Texans did not back away from fights...
...that it would come to Bangkok's aid with troops if their country is invaded. China's invasion of Viet Nam last February provided few clues to the capabilities of the 3.5 million-man People's Liberation Army, since the Chinese withdrew before engaging in a major encounter with regular Vietnamese forces. Currently, China is trying to upgrade its obsolescent weaponry by buying arms from Western Europe...
Although she danced in high school productions, Goldberg drifted away from dance in college. She was a political science major at Boston University and very active in the antiwar movement. Only in her senior year did she begin to take modern dance lessons again...