Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial tremors seem to be Malkin's lot. While in London in 1967, he covered the devaluation of the British pound. In 1981 he spent his Christmas holiday reporting the implications of martial law on Poland's unpayable debt. In deed, as a journalist moving around the world for two decades, he has been forced to maintain bank accounts in half a dozen countries and to watch helplessly as currencies fluctuated...
Gassama said the coalition decided to stage the picket outside Pound Hall, where the course will be taught, after deciding against disrupting the class. "We considered it, but we are taking measured responses," he explained...
Upton, however, said picketing "absolutely must be outside the building," adding. "There's a lot of traffic going on within Pound Hall We can't have classes obstructed...
...decline, they could take a loss. With state and local governments expected to issue record volumes of bonds in 1983, Lebenthal plans to be busier than ever. Though his firm has just 32 sales people, a tiny force compared with giants like Merrill Lynch, he brags: "Pound for pound, we may sell more municipal bonds than any other firm in America...
...punishment are social vengeance, the affirmation of civilization's standards and the deterrence of future crimes. The last has never been proved, unfortunately, but if vengeance is what society seeks, a gentle execution would seem counterproductive. Better to use the garrote or the guillotine, surely, whereby the full pound of flesh may be reclaimed. Better still to do as the Romans in cases of parricide. The criminal, judged guilty, would be bound and sealed in a sack with a dog and a chicken, then dumped into the water. Eventually he would suffocate or drown, if he was not first...