Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aspirin must be packaged with not more than 36 tablets to a bottle, each tablet of not more than 1¼-grain strength, or one-fourth the potency of the conventional tablet for adults. The FDA's Dr. Basil G. Delta figures that one grain of aspirin per pound of body weight is the danger threshold. So, if a five-year-old weighing the average 45 Ibs. for his age gobbled a whole 45-grain bottle of the future children's aspirin, he would be sick, but would almost certainly recover. For a smaller child the results could...
...British pound, which has been ailing for decades, has begun to show signs of returning health. And its new strength is reflected in reports both at home and abroad. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that the British have entirely repaid more than $625 million borrowed from the U.S. last summer in order to help sterling escape devaluation. In a long-distance diagnosis, the Reserve Bank's Charles A. Coombs, vice president in charge of foreign operations, said that the pound has "moved through crisis to convalescence...
...semi-annual report on U.S. foreign-currency operations, Coombs explained that the largest factor in sterling's recovery has been "the underlying improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...
Still, defense of the pound, which finances a third of the world's trade, is the first order of business. And last week Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan told Parliament that by Dec. 2, Britain will repay on schedule the remaining $871 million of a $1 billion sterling-defense loan from the International Monetary Fund...
...pound match paired Leverett's John Berman and Winthrop's Phil Emmi. Berman won, 2-1, with a reversal in the last 30 seconds of the last period...