Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some supporters of the yellow metal favor a "fractional" gold standard in which money would be only partially covered by Government gold stocks. This would not entirely remove the Federal Reserve's role in monetary policy, but would restrain its powers to issue paper money. They believe that the Fed's policy of controlling inflation through the money supply is well intended but ineffectual. Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget, says that the Federal Reserve has become a "monetary Gong Show...
...King, has long wanted to become a jailhouse legal expert. Early one morning last week, as Ray studied in the prison's law library, he was attacked from behind by three fellow cons, all of them black. The gang beat and stabbed Ray, 53, with a foot-long metal window brace. Doctors in nearby Oak Ridge found 22 wounds in Ray's head, neck and chest, but after an hour of surgery and 77 stitches he was out of danger. At week's end Ray was discharged from Oak Ridge hospital and transferred to Brushy Mountain Prison...
...were also grim reminders of the heightened security measures that have been taken since the President was shot on March 30. Sharpshooters were positioned on the top steps of the bleachers in Michie Stadium, constantly scanning the crowd. Cadets with seats near the podium were required to walk through metal detectors before entering the stadium. The President was whisked by helicopter between the academy and Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., where Air Force One had landed; he did not stop to answer reporters' questions, as he normally did before the assassination attempt...
...Professional Stuntman Daniel Goodwin, 25, decked out in the bright red-and-blue costume of that nimble comic-book hero. With 40-m.p.h. winds whipping around him and 50 Ibs. of climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots designed to hold window-washing scaffolds. When one of those scaffolds was placed in his path, Goodwin simply moved sideways, grabbing suction cups that he placed on the windows. Said he: "There was a coat of grease on the windows to keep them...
More characteristic of the attitude toward problems outside of Cambridge was a prank perpetrated by Crimson editors two years earlier. After stealing the sacred mascot of the Lampoon--a large metal stork--the Crimson gave the bird to the Soviet embassy in Washington, a gift from American students to Joseph Stalin. The Lampoon promptly contacted McCarthy's committee to report an incident of obvious Communist sympathizing...