Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, Kremen can never resist pulling out his notebook in any situation--a drunken college party, a pool game in Louisiana, a car he gets a ride in--that might possibly give him some pearl of wisdom that will help him in telling us what's going on out there. He's always sidling up to someone and asking the provocative questions that will get to the bottom of it all--except that more often than not, his questions are designed to bear out his own assumptions about what people are thinking. Here is Kremen on his first...
...authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness in the real story...
...Thomas Wakefield or his law firm) for the deposit and transfer of at least $20,000 in $100 bills, and that these funds were subsequently used to pay for part of the $45,621.15 in improvements to the Nixons' Key Biscayne properties. These improvements included a new swimming pool and accessories, a fireplace, a putting green and a billiard table...
...days before, he had stood fascinated on the lush grounds of the Black Sea dacha of Leonid Brezhnev as the Soviet Communist chief demonstrated the collapsible glass wall around his Olympic-sized swimming pool, which Kissinger was repeatedly asked to swim in. Kissinger has listened to Brezhnev "order" him to Siberia for failing to yield enough in negotiations. His comeback: "I should be a member of the Politburo since I meet with you guys so much." Kissinger came away from a negotiating session with the Soviets and said, "I would do anything for caviar -and I may have...
Reluctant Leaders. Even if foreign-exchange dealings were to return to normal, international bankers face another major problem: stagnation in the "Eurocurrency" market. This is a giant, unregulated pool of dollars, pounds, marks and other currencies that has been deposited in banks outside the country of issuance. Companies and even governments have been able to tap the market freely for loans that played a major role in financing trade. The currency pool is continuing to grow in size (see chart following page) but nervous investors these days are making only short-term deposits; the banks are reluctant to make...