Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supper, Aunt Bessie would continuallyask me if I wanted anything. According to custom,I always had to refuse twice--politely--beforeaccepting. Since we were family, Aunt Bessieusually skipped the three offer pas-de-deux andproceeded to reload my plate upon my firstrefusal. These reinforcements often includedsurprises like potato salad, pound cake, homemadeice cream and sweet potato pie. Amazingly, I wasalways able to finish off whatever was given tome. I guess she had a way of being able to discernexactly when I was about to burst, a term I don'tuse lightly...
...very popular kid, close to a lot ofpeople," Logan said of McHugh, a 5 foot, 2 inchtall, 120 pound teenager who lives on SpringStreet in East Cambridge. DJ Rodriguez, asophomore who knew McHugh, also said "he didn'tseem like he could do something like that...
Then, after much roaring over a forthcoming cut in its interest rates, the German Bundesbank delivered a monetary mouse -- a reduction of only one- quarter of 1% in its key rate. That did more harm than good, and currency traders resumed dumping lire and billions of British pounds. In London Prime Minister John Major's government, determined to stay with the E.C. system in the face of the pound's continued fall, tried to lure investors at midweek with an increase in the Bank of England's interest rate, from 10% to 12%. Even when, in desperation, the rate...
...markets surmised that the German central bank really wanted a fundamental realignment in the exchange-rate mechanism that tied the E.C.'s 12 currencies together. Within 24 hours, traders drove the British pound below the minimum level agreed on by governments, and Prime Minister John Major was forced to take his currency out of the rate-setting mechanism. A hastily recalled Parliament will press him this week to reconsider the Community's goals, and a number of members will demand that at the very least he allow British voters a say on whether or not to ratify Maastricht...
Currency Commotion: The British pound takes a violent thrashing and so do hopes of a united Europe...