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...exchange rates, the President offhandedly observed that nonetheless "there could still be some lowering of the ((U.S. dollar's)) value." Money traders interpreted that as a renewed attempt to talk the dollar down in order to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, and the greenback promptly sank. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater issued two clarifications asserting that the President wanted the dollar to stabilize. Reagan will have to do better than that at a summit with Gorbachev, lest the Soviet leader steal all the credit for the missile agreement that should be the proudest international achievement of the Reagan presidency...
...able to hit a fastball, but you have one thing in common with Major League Baseball players. Like any Yankee or Marlin, you want to shake the stiffness of winter out of your carcass and bound into spring like a line drive. Which is why following a spring-training regimen of muscle-stretching and flexibility exercises can be so important. Not coincidentally, the stretching regimen that most pro-baseball teams use may be the best way to go. Reason: baseball, compared with such physical-contact sports as football or such running-intense games as soccer, more closely parallels the average...
...Marlin Fitzwater, the curmudgeonly and wise press secretary to George Herbert Walker Bush and before that, Ronald Reagan, liked to say there are two kinds of truth: the kind you read in a book - and the kind any fool...
...Marlin's proverb comes to mind because that's pretty much the dividing line in the Dubai Ports controversy this week: between intellect and instinct, between those who say they can explain this deal and those who say there is no explaining...
Jessica D. Marlin ’05, who wrote a thesis in the government department but was not recommended for honors, said she was frustrated that the new standards applied to students who had been working with expectations tied to the old standards...