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...billionaire George Soros, there is no sweeter music than the roar of an international exchange- rate crisis. In his latest orchestration, Soros reaped profits to the tune of $1 billion by staking seven-digit sums of leveraged cash on a future drop in the value of the lira and pound sterling. Amid Europe's ongoing currency flux, Soros could have easily come out a big loser. But when the pound tumbled, his risky triumph delighted investors in the Soros-run Quantum Fund and peeved officials in Western Europe's vulnerable central banks, who were forced to cough up billions...
Major's credibility was damaged further in September when a combination of largely uncontrollable forces -- the troubled German economy, aggressive & foreign-exchange dealers -- brought on a currency crisis that forced the pound down to the lowest level allowed by the exchange-rate mechanism, which linked sterling with other European currencies and served as a symbol of British commitment to European union. Major passionately insisted that Britain must keep the pound in the system at all costs. But after the government spent millions of pounds and drastically raised interest rates, the effort failed: Major had to suspend participation in the exchange...
...ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure--or so says Harvard Medical School...
Entering the season with high expectations, the relatively lightweight Crimson will have to intensify its physical game to compensate for the loss of Martins, a small but hard-hitting forward. "Pound for pound, he's probably the strongest guy on the team," Tomassoni said. "He's probably one of the strongest in all of college hockey...
...passed, Question 4--known as the Polluter Pay Initiative--would place a tax of one fifth of a cent per pound on the production and import of toxic chemicals and industrial petroleum products in Massachusetts...