Word: pegs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Peg Fulton, administrative editor of the Loeb Classical Library at Harvard, the recent changes are "part of a process which began in 1990 to replace old translations at the rate of four a year...
...Fund. ?The talks were friendly enough, but Suharto has made no concrete commitments,? says Van Voorst. While he awaits the second installment of his $40 billion bailout, Suharto did promise to implement the IMF program. But he also questioned its efficacy and vowed to press ahead with plans to peg his currency to the dollar -- against the will of the IMF and Washington...
...international body had been alarmed at Suharto's plan to peg the rupiah to the dollar, which would force up interest rates and bring even greater economic hardship to a nation already in the grip of mounting social turmoil. President Clinton on Friday called Suharto -- for the second time this month -- to urge him to comply with IMF requirements for the $43 billion bailout of Indonesia. "Suharto is sitting on a political volcano," says Van Voorst, "which is why it's not easy for the IMF to simply pull the plug on its promised bailout. The collapse of Indonesia...
...finale in the police department was silly, and so very "Mayberry." Eisenstein and Rosalinda had an unmistakably Ted-and-Peg Bundy exchange on their way to making up. If "Die Fledermaus" has a moral at all, it's that any reconciliation is possible if both parties are sufficiently drunk. Since only Falke emerges from the third act sober, we have to conclude that, in life, the grudge-bearers have less...
...barely dry on the International Monetary Fund's deal to bail out South Korea's floundering financial system. But the facts seem to still be changing, says Money Daily. The original figure, a record-setting $55 billion, was revised up to $57 billion. Now, reports peg the amount at over $60 billion, including new commitments Friday from Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden...