Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On assignment for the BBC, Scoones started his search by dragging an underwater television camera along the seabed in depths of about 300 meters (1,000 ft.) off the Comoros. On board his small boat, he patiently watched the TV monitor for a glimpse of the fish that had only...
Playboy, now celebrating its 25th anniversary and straining to elevate itself from a swamp of newer and raunchier skin magazines, dispatched Chan to perpetrate a photo spread on "Girls of the Ivy League." Chan admitted that the Southwest Conference was Playboy's first choice, but the magazine decided that...
For all practical purposes, the world has been off the gold-exchange standard for nearly eight years. When it comes to transactions among central banks, mankind's most treasured possession is supposed to have no more relevance than the Mongolian tughrik. So much for the official view of gold...
With the bullion markets boiling since before Christmas, a cooling-off period has long been overdue, and investors have been cashing in on their eye-popping profits. Last week prices closed at $247, but few believed that the run-up was over. Traders were even talking of gold's...
The Administration is clearly right in wanting to bury gold as a monetary reserve. It would be dangerous to make the official wealth of the world's nations dependent upon the erratic supplies of a metal that comes largely from South Africa and the Soviet Union, whose governments can...