Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper may be the equal of Blair, but the rest of the Colgate squad can't begin to match the Crimson's speed, and isn't big or strong enough to pound the hosts into submission...
...newest addition to the Harvard University community, Ann Spence, wife of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, Saturday gave birth to a seven-pound 10-ounce baby girl...
...sunny mood. Ten years after she became head of her country's Conservative Party and nearly six years since she assumed the post ! of Prime Minister, Thatcher faces a daunting array of problems. Britain's unemployment rate of 13.9% is the country's highest since the Depression. The pound, worth $1.44 a year ago (and $2 in 1981), sank to $1.07 last week. A miners' strike, which has cost the country an estimated $3.8 billion and divided the nation, will go into its second year in March; a carefully crafted settlement fell apart while Thatcher...
Thatcher then delivered what amounted to a valentine to U.S.-British relations. Her voice at times schoolmarmish but her delivery well modulated, the Prime Minister glossed over the battering of the British pound by the strong dollar, noting that "it is a marvelous time for Americans not only to visit Britain but to invest with us." On East-West relations, Thatcher insisted that the goal of the Soviet Union remained "the total triumph of socialism all over the world...
Afterward, the Prime Minister lunched at the White House with Reagan. The two friends discussed a range of issues, including the prickly matter of the robust dollar and the weakening pound. But Thatcher refrained from asking Reagan to adopt measures that could remedy what the British view as a crippling exchange rate. "Thatcher knows there isn't that much we can do," said White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. "The dollar has hurt the pound, but it has also helped British exports...