Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union message this week, Carter will outline his urgent goals for 1978: an energy bill, a tax cut, the passage of Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, and Middle East peace. If most of those goals are achieved, the President's standing in the polls will doubtless move up. Then, when the time for hard campaigning begins, his support would become a valuable asset to even the most independent members of the balky new Congress who are running for reelection...
...agencies issued a terse one-paragraph announcement that the U.S. would actively begin supporting its weakening currency on world markets. That afternoon, the Federal Reserve began buying up unwanted dollars to shore up their price. The move touched off one of the wildest dollar rallies ever, but the upturn was as brief as it was explosive. By week's end the dollar was slipping again, raising the question of whether U.S. intervention in the money markets can buy anything but temporary relief for the battered buck...
European leaders quickly applauded the move. An official in Bonn's finance ministry asserted: "At last Washington woke up. It's better late than never." Bundesbank President Otmar Emminger said that "the action should have a major stabilizing effect and put an end to speculative excesses...
...least four Vermont ski areas considered shutdowns this year, and one small slope in Underbill Center has remained closed despite generally good snow conditions. At one point, the nation's largest ski insurer, American Home Assurance Co., threatened to cancel its ski-area coverage in Vermont, a move that might have led to wholesale closedowns...
...elliptically shaped main arena (known as a "squircle") can be switched from a football stadium that can seat 76,791 Super Bowl fans to a compact configuration for 20,000 basketball rooters. Automated bleachers move on rails from the east side of the dome toward the permanently anchored stands on the west side, while other stands move in from either end to surround the basketball court, bringing the closest seat to within 9 ft. of the action...