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Every day The Crimson gets a bagful of mail containing a hefty pile of press releases. The articles on this page appear unaltered, exactly as they arrived from the post office to 14 Plympton...
...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
Everyone agrees that the rules of a new system should make countries that run persistent international deficits, like the U.S., and those that pile up huge surpluses, like Germany, bring their accounts into balance. But the U.S. wants far more compulsion in any new rules than the Europeans do. There is widespread agreement also that government banks should be able to exchange any foreign currency that they accumulate for other reserve assets. That means, among other things, that foreign central banks could sell dollars back to the U.S. in exchange for gold, Special Drawing Rights (S.D.R.s or "paper gold" issued...
...will make for better products and better price performance." The company, of course, will not collect its sudden bonanza while the case is tied up in appeals, a process that could last for years. But if the judgment is upheld, Telex will ultimately pocket interest payments as well-which pile up at the rate of nearly $100,000 per day, or half as fast as the firm's current sales...
Nonstop Munching. McDonald's statistical accomplishments are staggering. To illustrate: if all the 12 billion McDonald's hamburgers sold to date were to be stacked into one pile, they would form a pyramid 783 times the size of the one erected by Snefru. If a man ate a McDonald's hamburger every five minutes, it would take him 114,000 years of nonstop munching to consume 12 billion burgers. If all the cattle that have ever laid down their lives for McDonald's were to be resurrected for a reunion, they would stand flank-by-jowl...