Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need for a speedy and sound agreement can hardly be overemphasized. Uncertainty about the outcome of the pay talks has caused nervous investors to dump sterling. Last week the pound hit a record low of about $1.80 before rallying to close at $ 1.84-still down 8% against the dollar in less than two months. No significant recovery is likely until a workable pay policy is adopted and investors' fears of a new burst of inflation are put to rest. A cheaper pound will give British goods a price edge in world markets; it is already driving hordes of bargain...
...anything could happen, the portents are favorable. T.U.C. leaders are well aware that if they take an obdurate stand and force Healey to withdraw all or part of his popular offer of tax relief, they will be blamed. Labor would also be faulted for a further drop in the pound and more inflation...
...light of Caravaggio, Gentileschi's master. And in a small back gallery on the first floor of the museum the Heinz Gotze Exhibit of Japanese Art exemplifies the peculiarly Oriental process of passing from the seen to the unseen. The paintings and calligraphy make a pictorial poetry which Ezra Pound described as "the ideal language of the world...
Evidently, many people now find poetry easier to write than to read. The demolitions of old poetic constraints-inaugurated by such elitists as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound-have allowed just about any flyspecked page to masquerade as divine afflatus. "Poetry," Pound insisted, "must be as well written as prose," but he did not reckon on the grunts, snorts and limping non sequiturs that his epigones would later commit to paper under the banner...
...egotism and vanity involved with anorexia is unbelievable," she says. "You spend hours a day examining yourself, looking at your body. Gaining one pound is a big thing." Unlike most anorexics, who deny there is anything wrong with them, she wants to talk about the strange disease she has for five years. But she doesn't want people to know...