Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afraid to go into the corners for the puck," says the 5-8, 120-pound Huber, who has faced off against women who were missing several front teeth. "But we'll be a pretty low keyed group this season. Hard work and enthusiasm is all you can ask for in the first year," Huber adds. "But don't worry--we'll get there...
First Israeli: "It's simple. We let the Israeli pound fall in value, allow free exchange of dollars, Israeli exports become dirt cheap, and in the long run the economy is strengthened...
...surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer goods, no longer kept deliberately cheap by big government subsidies, began climbing in stages that even government economists predict will lead to a 45% inflation rate over the next 18 months...
...like a guy who has just lost his job...he needs his family," the 6-ft. 9-in., 230-pound center says. "We've given the fans exciting, winning basketball for many years, and we'll continue to give them exciting ball--hopefully also winning ball. The people in Boston are so used to winning though, I hope they don't get fickle. They will hopefully just come out for the sake of watching good basketball...
...Allan Jones and To Tell the Truth Grand Dame Kitty Carlisle as a pair of nauseatingly naive and boring singing lovers. But even they are not enough to sink a film featuring the redoubtable Margaret Dumont and authored by (among others) George S. Kaufman, S. J. Perelman, and 300-pound miracle worker Al Boasberg, who wrote the famous stateroom scene and then left it torn up into tiny strips for the others to find and paste together. And in the end, it seems that the Marxes' relationship with Thalberg was a truly dialectical one, in which Thalberg succumbed to Marxist...