Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard varsity wrestling team elected aggressive lightweight Dan Blakinger captain of the 1973-74 squad yesterday. The 118-pound grappler succeeds 190-pound standout, Richie Starr...
Praise the Law and Pass the Erudition. And put your faith in cod and eat your chowder dry. An original musical satire of law school life. At the Pound Multipurpose Room (apparently a real place...
...members of the committee believes that the cost of sending a space shuttle into Earch orbit can be reduced to $20 per pound. President Nixon's proposed shuttle will cost $100 per pound, Hopkins said, although it does have cheaper research and development expenditures...
...idea obviously was high on the agenda of the Brussels conference. But the mechanics of arranging a joint float are formidably complex. The pound and Italian lira are already floating individually and would have to be repegged against neighboring currencies before the whole structure could be set adrift against the dollar. Then, in order to keep all the floaters moving in the same direction at the same speed, the Common Market countries would have to promise if necessary to buy each others' currencies in almost unlimited amounts. Nor could anyone be entirely happy with a joint float even...
Acrobats. The dual devaluation of the dollar has hastened the creation of a turbulent new world of money in which the once rigidly fixed values of some currencies are bouncing up and down like acrobats on a trampoline. Since late 1971, for instance, the British pound has risen from $2.49 to $2.64, sunk to an all-time low of $2.32, and last week closed at $2.44. Five important currencies -the pound, Japanese yen, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Italian lira-are "floating" with no fixed exchange rate at all. They sell at prices set mostly by supply and demand. That...