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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the system, if any member country's currency rises or falls out of this narrow band, its government will be obliged to adjust the price and pull it back in. A country can do this by buying or selling its own currency on international markets. If it needs money to do this kind of buying, it can borrow from a new fund. To set up the fund, each member country will contribute about 20% of its gold and dollar reserves, or a total of up to $32 billion. The fund will be denominated not in marks, francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Europe's New Money Union | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...plan is one surface manifestation of labor's fundamental political weakness. Both the CLC and the NDP have become centralized, elite-dominated organizations that pursue change through state bureaucracies and parliamentary committees rather than through organized political pressure. Mired down in bureaucratic intricacies, both organizations have focused on narrow economic questions and have neglected the broader issue of political power...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Canada's Leftists Pick Up Support | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...ranked seventh in New England before the contest and which even brags a win over Holy Cross, showed little to boast of last night, falling behind by as much as 19 points in the second half. Only some late gymnastics against Crimson rookies allowed the Big Green to narrow the final margin within the bounds of respectability...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Cagers Down Dartmouth; Hooft Leads All Scorers | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...getting some pressure to include women in major roles, so what roles do they give them--T. and A. (Tits and Ass). It shows that sexism is deeper than many people seem to realize and that men's ideas of giving women prominence is obviously still very narrow...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...fair, perhaps women's ideas of delivering prominence to themselves is also very narrow...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

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