Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration began a series of steadying actions last week. The U.S. Treasury announced that starting in November it would boost its gold sales from 300,000 oz. per month to 750,000. To allay any speculation about the oil-rich nations turning against the dollar, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal met with Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil at Disney World, of all places, where the minister was vacationing with his family. Blumenthal suggested that a timely statement of support might give the dollar a lift. Soon after, Crown Prince Fahd declared that his country had every intention...
...like the shadows," says Michael Henchard, the hero of this drama, and the viewer immediately knows where he is: in Thomas Hardy country, dark, gloomy and unrelievedly tragic. Haunted by one terrible incident in his past, Henchard proceeds to ruin his own life and the lives of nearly everyone he touches, until, like Shakespeare's Lear, the character he most resembles, he is left with nothing but his own relentless memories...
Stop the Shovels Moir contacted ICA director Michael Roberts, who met with representatives from Harvard University, the MBTA and the Massachusetts Historical Commission today to determine whether construction should be halted pending complete excavation of the area. Because federal funds are being used for the MBTA project, the final decision will be made by the National Advisory Council of Historical Preservation, based on the Massachusetts Historical Commission's evaluation of the historical value of the find...
...franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less, hit an unheard-of $215.90 an ounce. So the White House passed the word that President Carter was "deeply concerned" and had asked Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller for advice on what he could do to stop the drop. Then the President called a press conference for Thursday afternoon; the dollar rose briskly, and the price of gold declined, in anticipation of some immediate action...
...rate mortgages were devised by the E.F. Hutton brokerage firm, working closely with city hall. Alarmed by the continuing exodus of Chicagoans to the suburbs-the city has lost about 50,000 middle-class citizens a year since the mid-1950s-Mayor Michael Bilandic warmly embraced the plan as a way to subsidize home loans without increasing taxes...