Word: marked
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...bureaucratic," says McMurrin. "He has suffered through this problem for 30 years." What if Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much too conservative to have acted as Kimball did in lifting the barrier for blacks...
...Europe, where the dollar's gyrations last winter and spring cost the U.S. Treasury some $3 billion in support operations, the greenback was already so grossly undervalued against the West German mark that the exchange rate remained relatively stable at about 2.04 to the dollar. But the value of the Swiss franc rose to an alltime high of 1.75, and the price of gold surged to a record $201 an ounce on frantic trading in both London and Zurich...
Last week Common Market finance ministers met in Brussels to thrash out details of the proposed system. At its core would be the European Currency Unit, or ECU, whose value would be based on a "basket" of European currencies in which the German mark would weigh the most heavily. The ECU would be not a bill or a coin but a series of accounts that member governments would use. European currencies would be allowed to fluctuate around the ECU in a narrow band of 1% either way, and the ECU would float against the dollar. Moreover, when member nations intervened...
...clothespins, the American consumer lifted the economy out of a ditch in 1975 and has kept it chugging along ever since. The U.S. shopper still seems insatiable, but now the experts are becoming worried about him (and, of course, her). Says a top Washington economist: "The golden question mark for the economy is, what is buried in the consumer's mind?" Echoes Daniel Brill, the Treasury's chief economist: "I'm very concerned right now about what is going through the consumer's head, as well as what is coming out of his pocket...
...good deal more to be proud of. In his 16th major league season, "Charlie Hustle," the man of the headfirst slide, has plunged headlong into the record books, taking with him a new mark for consecutive-game hitting streaks by modern-era National Leaguers. Last week Rose surpassed Tommy Holmes' 37-game record, set in 1945. Then, tackling the American League, he moved past Ty Cobb (40 in 1911) and tied George Sisler (41 in 1922) in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game major league record...