Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaped the faint outlines of a deal. It calls for the U.S. to devalue the dollar by 5% or 7%, by raising either the price of gold or the price of the international Special Drawing Rights. There would be little or no change in the French franc or British pound, but because the dollar would be devalued, French and British goods would tend to be 5% to 7% costlier than U.S. exports...
...lead to an ANAPO victory in the 1974 elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational, agrarian and urban reorms. Meanwhile, inflation is increasing while the price of Colombia's prime export, coffee, is down to 40? a pound, v. $1 during...
...hrer was that kind of fellow. But T.S. Eliot! Could that austere poet's most celebrated work actually have sprung from sweaty sessions with pencil stubs and mutual gropings after the mot juste! It has always been painful to imagine, even though for 50 or so years Ezra Pound has been acknowledged as much more than The Waste Land's literary godfather...
...manuscript turned up in New York. A brief critical glimpse-but no note taking-was permitted then, answering some questions, raising others. Now the poet's wife, Valerie Eliot, has brought out a facsimile edition of the original Waste Land. Complete with notes, a color key to distinguish Pound's editing from Eliot's, progressive handwritten and typed versions of the text, it clearly shows what Eliot, Pound, and even Eliot's unstable first wife Vivien contributed...
Dearer for Two. Some increases seem clearly illegal. Retail prices of seven cuts of meat that are subject to controls have risen substantially in New York City, according to a state-government survey. For instance, porterhouse steak climbed from a pre-freeze high of $1.99 a pound to $2.09. Last week freeze-enforcing Internal Revenue Service agents found only negligible meat violations; possibly shopkeepers had been alerted by the well-publicized study. Another study disclosed even larger jumps in some fish prices. Halibut steak soared 25%, to $1.49 a pound...