Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Margaret Thatcher is quietly "giving the modest stimulus to the economy that some of its critics are asking for." In fact, bank credit has been growing faster than monetary targets, yet instead of raising interest rates, the government for the past several months has been allowing the British pound to depreciate against the dollar and other strong European currencies like the German mark. But at one point last week the pound slipped to $1.12, and the Bank of England started raising some interest rates. The economic recovery has left untouched the 13% rate of unemployment. Brittan maintains that the government...
...Diet is going to become a lot less of an issue now they've got rid of the average weight of 125," says Lisa Zuckerman '87, a two year varsity veteran. "If the boat was over average, everyone would need to lose a pound. I remember a lot of people sucking down and getting really skinny...
...heart as a cumbersome device that doesn't give people the type of life they really need," observed Jarvik after the first successful use of the device. According to Jarvik, other improvements in the technology are on the horizon. The current heart, which weighs three-quarters of a pound, is too large to fit in most women's smaller chest cavities; its successor, the Jarvik-8, will ultimately be available in more than one size, including a streamlined model for people with small frames...
Behind this austere facade, Ackroyd finds a tormented and divided soul. Eliot shied away from attention while courting it with Machiavellian skills. Ezra Pound, another American expatriate, aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence and self-denigration. He invited sympathy; friends who knew he was overworked were startled to see him wearing a green face powder that accentuated his cadaverous pallor. Yet he repulsed those who tried to ease his burdens; several plans to raise money that would free Eliot of his bank duties...
...USUALLY HAPPENS sometime in second grade when you see your teacher squeezing the Chatmin or checking the price on a pound of Purdue chicken; the shocking notton that Miss Teachingbody lives outside the classroom Later on, sometime before your first rendez-vous with the dermatologist, you realize that your parents don't always just read before they doze off. Somehow, though, the two notions never coalesce into the equally plausible notion that maybe Miss Teachingbody, too, does more than maybe loss her red inked papers aside and draw up the comforter before counting the sheep. Popular mythology lingers too long...