Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is that in the "gold-exchange" system nations pay for most of their global commerce in gold or dollars, and the U.S. is pledged to sell its gold bullion for any paper dollars that foreign central bankers turn in. Moreover, the U.S. guarantees the official price at $35 an ounce. Because of its now familiar balance of payments deficits, the U.S. has papered the world with its dollars, creating plenty of calls on the nation's gold stock. Since 1957, U.S. gold reserves have declined by almost half, to less than $12 billion, and foreign claims...
...exams will be given. But students will be assigned one major paper and several shorter papers...
...getting too hot for comfort in the town government of Islip, N.Y.; inside of a year, 14 high-ranking officials quietly resigned. So Newsday, the Long Island daily, started to poke into the matter. The more it poked, the more it found. After three months' digging, the paper finally unearthed the kind of conflict-of-interest scandal that every editor dreams...
...series of articles that began last September, the paper told how six prominent Long Island Republicans and many lesser fry had been using public office to make a killing from Islip's surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum...
...substance, and the meaning emerges gradually, thus providing a complement rather than a distraction to cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise...