Word: pegging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policymakers want to remove gold from the world monetary system altogether. A start was made last week when monetary officials agreed to peg Special Drawing Rights (money created out of thin air by the International Monetary Fund) to the value of 16 world currencies rather than to gold. The move may transmute the yellow metal into a simple commodity for industrial users and speculators-whose numbers may soon include U.S. citizens...
...Mike Reynolds started the uprising with a walk. That was followed by a groundball to first baseman Leigh Hogan, whose peg to second went astray, leaving two on and no outs...
...They should be granted immediate, unconditional amnesty, he said, with a "declaration of appreciation for their decency and humanitarianism. Their deserting was infinitely preferable to continuing as killers and maimers of a people against whom the U.S. had no grievance whatever." Spectators were visibly moved when Peg Mullen, whose son was killed in Viet Nam four years ago, asked: "What difference is there between a government which forces its dissidents to seek exile and a government which exiles its dissidents...
...been replacing damaged portions of his body with artificial parts for centuries. Peg legs have been used since 600 B.C., and metal hands since the 16th century. Boston Silversmith Paul Revere was well known for the quality of the false teeth he fashioned long before his midnight message to Massachusetts' minutemen. But today's many and various replacements, made of such space-age materials as Teflon, the nonstick plastic, and pyrolytic carbon, a diamond-hard substance, are far more sophisticated. Unlike earlier devices, which were worn outside the body and usually removed at night, they are true replacements...
...growing presumption about life on other worlds led, in 1971, to a multidisciplinary conference in Soviet Armenia on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Sagan, predictably, headed the American delegation. The resulting conference report just published by M.I.T. deals with attempts to peg the possible number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy at or beyond our own technological level...