Word: pound
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...recession has left nearly a million Britons without jobs, v. 680,000 a year ago; the unemployment total is expected to reach 1.5 million by mid-1976. But that prospect has failed to reverse the inflationary trend; unions still demand and get wage increases of up to 40%. The pound (worth, roughly, $2.30) fell last week to its lowest point ever against most world currencies, a decline of 24.4% since late 1971. The nation that once ran an empire on which the sun never set has become dependent on foreign loans to help meet this year's anticipated public...
Britain's troubles raise the specter of international bankruptcy, a situation in which an uncontrollable run on the pound would force Britain to declare a moratorium on repayment of foreign debts, slap tight controls on wages and prices and limit imports drastically. The result would be a sharp decline in British living standards. While recently presenting a new budget that imposes an additional 25% tax on most luxury items, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey warned that Britain must not exhaust the patience of foreign lenders. "We would then face the appalling prospect of going down in a matter...
...lezra Pound and I.S. Fhot...
...directly to the many fish markets that line the fish pier. The bigger boats can go out for several days at a stretch and auction off their fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish is worth per pound. Prices are also affected by how much fish is trucked in from Canada on a given day. Fish that comes in by road is free of import duty; fish that comes in by boat is subject to excise taxes that pay the costs of running the fish pier--unloading...
...field events, Valorie Taylor threw the discus 71 feet 10 inches and tossed a nine--pound shot 25 feet 3.5 inches...