Word: onesidedness
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Floating partly strips speculators of their advantage. "It's much more a onesided gamble if a government alone is pegging the dollars," says a monetary official in Canada, where local currency has floated against the U.S. dollar for nearly three years without major problems. "Under a float, a speculator...
AT 9:44 on a drizzly overcast morning last week, a radio loudspeaker snapped out the order to attack. Through the stinging mist of CS pepper gas dropped by Viet Nam-style helicopters, yellow-clad troopers set off a barrage of rifle fire from atop 30-ft. prison walls. More...
Propitious Movement. Pressure for some kind of unilateral action will likely surface again, and the President may yet accede to it. The White House already has a secret timetable for a onesided reduction of forces, and Nixon seemed to be heading in that direction when he said: "The time is...
Yeasty Independence. Today's directed verdict is usually a response to a request from the defendant. Before heeding such a request, a judge will customarily consider all the evidence favorable to the plaintiff, disregard all evidence to the contrary, and decide that even under those circumstances, no reasonable man...
In these days of the "credibility gap" and "overkill" in Vietnam, a sort of ancient parallel in the battle of Marathon, as so brilliantly described by Professor N.G.L. Hammond of Bristol University on Tuesday, may be instructive. The sources are exclusively Greek, and they report the battle as an over...