Word: milles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move by Volcker would, of course, leave open the powerful position of Federal Reserve chairman. The rumor mill is already putting forth candidates for the position. One is Secretary of State George Shultz, who has a strong economics background and served as Treasury Secretary under Nixon. Another prospect is Donald Regan, White House chief of staff and former Treasury Secretary. Washington speculation has it that First Mate Nancy Reagan wants the politically maladroit Regan out of the White House. The gossips have taken things from there and now have Regan headed for the Fed. Stay tuned...
...addition, some Congressmen, particularly Southern Democrats representing textile-producing areas, got their ears burned when they went home during the August recess. In Sycamore, Ala., Congressman William Nichols convened a gathering in the spinning room of a closed mill. A constituent who said he was a Korean War veteran complained, "I had no way of knowing that when I put my life on the line back then, I would be fighting for a country that was going to put me out of a job." He was referring to heavy textile imports from South Korea...
...communes, where they can live until Jasper wears out his welcome, which seldom takes long. After four years of staying with and sponging off Alice's divorced mother (whose class Jasper winningly calls "bourgeois pigs"), the couple is out on the streets again. Fortunately there is 43 Old Mill Road, a dilapidated London house that has been commandeered by Jasper's friend Bert as headquarters and campsite for something called the Communist Centre Union...
Lost? Confused? In need of guidance? To aide the crowds that mill around Harvard every day, Cambridge has constructed its answer to the Johnston Gate Guardhouse: a Disneyland-style information booth in the heart of Harvard Square. The $35,000 pink and blue structure, funded and operated by a non-profit group called Cambridge Discovery, is primarily aimed at helping tourists with their information needs...
Lost? Confused? In need of guidance? To aide the crowds that mill around Harvard every day, Cambridge has constructed its answer to the Johnston Gate Guardhouse: a Disneyland-style information booth in the heart of Harvard Square. The $35,000 pink and blue structure, funded and operated by a non-profit group called Cambridge Discovery, is primarily aimed at helping tourists with their information needs...