Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to indict the lending institutions for taking their "pound of flesh" from the already harassed home buyer. The questionable fees charged for making the loan and the "tribute" the seller must pay in points charged against him when a buyer seeks an FHA loan are tantamount to fiscal blackmail...
...moneymen assembled last week in Basel, Switzerland, the 38th annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlements was the occasion for a somber review of the past year's dizzying dislocations in world finance. Last fall the pound was devalued. Four months later came the speculative attack on the dollar that resulted in abandonment of the London gold pool. More recently, France's upheaval put unexpected pressures on the franc. "You can't tell the difference between monetary crisis and noncrisis any more," concluded one official at Basel. "Now it's crisis all the time...
...along with the three-year credit it received from the IMF. Such a loan, which will probably be financed by a group of individual countries, is necessary to stem the continuing flight from sterling that, if allowed to go unchecked, could increase pressure for yet another devaluation of the pound...
...Brooklyn's depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the Brooklyn Children's Museum took over a building that had formerly housed a pool hall and an auto showroom, last month set up a neighborhood branch called MUSE. Its exhibits invite participation; there are African drums to pound, African masks that can be worn, and a display of exotic headgear with a sign, "Please...
...Pound's or Williams' theories on prosody don't meet the cries of dying children...