Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's policy of demonetizing gold will receive yet a further setback if, as is expected, eight of the nine members of Europe's Common Market next month begin pooling a portion of their official reserve holdings to create a kind of central bankers' supermoney. The European Currency Unit, or "ecu," is intended to be the precursor to a Common Market currency that would at least partly replace marks, francs, guilders and other national money. Each member nation must contribute not only paper money but also 20% of its gold reserves to the pool that will back...
...middle is the key to a strong baseball team or military force or national economy. So it might be worthwhile to look at the state of business in the city that by many measures is closest, geographically and spiritually, to the middle of America: Wichita. Rising from the pool-table Kansas wheat fields, surrounded by aerospace plants and enormous grain elevators that ride the prairies like battleships, this community of 262,000 has a problem. There are not enough workers to meet its surging demand...
...after 1900, the salon was the main meeting point between new art and a wide public in Europe−have become apparent. In particular, the salon was relatively democratic. Any artist could send to it and stand a chance of acceptance. It suited a culture with a vast pool of unemployed, or insecurely employed, talent. There were more painters than buyers in the Paris of the 1850s, just as there are far more artists being produced by the art-education system in the U.S. today than there are galleries interested in their work. The salon was an indispensable testing ground...
...business as usual for the Harvard men's swimming team Saturday as the Crimson machine underwent its final tuneup for next weekend's Eastern Championships. The 66.5-46.5 victory over Yale at Blodgett Pool marked the completion of Harvard's second consecutive undefeated dual meet season...
Crimson star Bobby Hackett made only one appearance in the meet; but his 9:00.17 pool-record-breaking performance in the 1000-yd. freestyle ranks as the second fastest time ever recorded in the event...