Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin's reactions are hard to measure, but Western diplomats in Moscow agreed with Carter's assessment that the Soviets had long expected the U.S. move, and that, as the President said, this week's SALT talks "will not suffer any adverse effect." If all goes well, the Carter-Brezhnev summit is tentatively set for sometime during the week...
Beginning Jan. 2, the governments of West Germany, France, the Benelux nations and Denmark will start taking steps to ensure that their currencies move up or down, more or less, in unison. In addition, the members created a new form of money, the European Currency Unit, or ecu. For now, at least, the ecu will not be paper money used by the man in the strasse to pay his bills, but simply a bookkeeping device for Europe's central banks to settle debts with each other...
...extracted the Magna Carta from King John. The Thames is indeed England's Royal River, but it has not always been treated royally. Long a favorite garbage dump, the Thames' tidal waters near London had become so foul by the 17th century that James I threatened to move his court to Windsor. Then came two events that turned the river into what Victorians called a "monster soup": the Industrial Revolution and the closing of London's cesspools (following the introduction of the flush toilet). By 1859, wastes had made the Thames so ripe that disinfectant-soaked sheets...
Perhaps Cimino's boldest move is the use of Russian roulette as a recurrent image. The game that we first see as a Viet Cong torture later shows up as a sport conducted by wagering South Vietnamese in smoky Saigon back rooms. Besides serving as an expressionistic picture of the capital's profiteers, the roulette game becomes a metaphor for a war that blurred the lines between bravery and cruelty, friends and enemies, sanity and madness. Unfortunately, other conceits in The Deer Hunter damage the film. A first-hour wedding ceremony, designed to establish the tribal rites...
Still, the odds are that the IRS will modify its plan, a move that would win support from such Senate liberals as Edmund Muskie, Thomas Eagleton and John Chafee-all of whom have urged the service to give more thought to the needs of "innocent private and parochial institutions." Said Commissioner Kurtz: "This is a question we are very concerned about and will be examining closely." Although he gave no hint of the IRS's response, Kurtz made it plain to the chorus urging him to revise his plan that he had got the message...