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...said this system is the partial cause for the "floating vote"--voters who go into the polling place undecided--of 30 to 40 per cent in Israeli elections...
...been stung in the past six months by a 25% drop in world wholesale prices for green coffee, to a barely profitable 520 per Ib. (Retail prices in the U.S. have held at around $1.25 per Ib. because of increases in packaging and distribution costs.) Chief proponents of the partial embargo are Mexico and the Central American countries, whose coffee income has been hit by declining demand and steep rises in the cost of petroleum-based fertilizer...
...federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, he was entitled to have access to "the nature and substance of all the credit information." But Millstone was told by O'Hanlon's St. Louis office that his file was on its way to New York. Eventually, he was read a partial summary, which tagged him as "very much disliked by neighbors ... a hippie type ... participated in peace demonstrations... strongly suspected of being a drug user...
...Although Ford said he trusted "we can avoid blood and tears, and we will," what two partial substitutes did he offer "plenty...
Even so, the sale was at least a partial success for the Treasury. The gold, worth only $32 million at the $42.22 per oz. "official" price (used between governments), went for $124,841,256 in the auction-a tidy 300% profit. More important, as Washington had intended, the sale helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however...