Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reducing its purchasing power. As long as the West German inflation rate is under 3% while the American rate is more than 8%, the dollar will continue to depreciate, and the mark will rise. An austerity program that brings American inflation down toward the German level is an inescapable move to support the dollar...
...Syrian move saved the Christians who were losing the war, but they have now proved resistant to Syrian attempts to control them...
...council members received a copy of the proposed rule, and the council voted to move it to the Committee on Ordinances...
...prostitutes by charging them with disorderly conduct or traffic violations. Last week a lower court Detroit judge, William C. Hague, dismissed 84 prostitution cases. All over the country the struggle ebbs and flows: streetwalkers become brazen, the public complains, the city responds with tougher laws and arrests. The prostitutes move off the streets. The police start worrying more about muggers and murderers. The constitutionality of the law is challenged. The hookers return, like the tide. Police chiefs tend to sound like a gloomy Greek chorus about this endless cycle. The revolving door of the court system is expensive and fruitless...
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, likening the art of governing to paddling a canoe: "You lean a little to the left and then a little to the right in order to always move straight ahead...