Word: pegging
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...Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, meanwhile, drew a line in the sand for speculators, vowing the Hong Kong dollar's 14-year peg to the U.S. dollar is rock solid. He noted that the territory has US$88 billion in foreign reserves to defend its currency...
Reports published in The Boston Herald peg Kruger's blood alcohol level at .410, more than five times the legal limit in Massachusetts...
Harvard is a community in which acceptance of others is heavily stressed; yet, fringe groups such as Peninsula do exist, and intolerance rears its ugly head here as it does anywhere else. Unfortunately, religion is often the peg upon which disagreements hang. And therefore a great challenge facing secular universities is to find the balance between respecting the demands of various religious groups and respecting those who may be offended as a result. Today, Yale University sits at the helm of this crucial issue. In fact, Yale may well set a precedent for the role secular academic institutions play...
Well, finally--the president we deserve, a morally square peg in the Oval Office, a man whose primary emotional color is true blue. James Marshall is the kind of guy who stands up boldly to international thuggery as well as to temporizers on his own staff. He has a nice sense of humor, a good marriage and a daughter who mirrors his virtues. He is also, as it turns out, physically brave and uncannily resourceful under life-threatening pressure. And he looks a lot like the reliably doughty Harrison Ford...
MOVIES: In "Air Force One," "Harrison Ford is the president we deserve," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "a morally square peg in the Oval Office." When Air Force One is taken over by terrorists (led by Gary Oldman), Ford's James Marshall eludes the invaders, and finds himself stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane. "There is good -- sometimes witty -- suspense in Marshall?s single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools (a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine) come...