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...pounds or yen to buy American wheat, corn or soybeans. The muscle-bound dollar is primarily an ironic consequence of gargantuan U.S. budget deficits, which keep American interest rates high and entice foreign investors to convert their currencies into dollars, bidding up the greenback's price, in order to pour money into American investments...
...City Manager Robert W. Healy, the City's top municipal administrator, who must pour over thousands of pages of promises by the cable franchises and must weigh the merits of each company before awarding a preliminary license next month...
...money began to pour in, building international good will became a new priority. Ueberroth spent much of the time before the Games cultivating the various national ministers of sport, and was constantly startled to discover the power and importance of athletics and athletic officials around the world. "Sports is an immense force in other countries," says Ueberroth. "Our Government still doesn't understand the consequences of the two Olympic boycotts in 1980 and 1984." Foreign officials sometimes took Ueberroth aside to inquire if he might help change some aspect of White House foreign policy. Ueberroth would explain that...
Even the televised Los Angeles Hotline gets its share of adult calls, including one of the few stumpers the program has ever received. Once a contractor phoned to ask Math Specialist Hall Davidson how much cement to pour for the foundation of a house whose dimensions the man did not know. Baffled, Davidson turned to Producer Greene. His helpful comment was "Make sure he doesn't do your house...
While aid from around the world continued to pour into drought-ravaged Ethiopia, a government relief official last week paused to discuss the reasons for the tragedy. "What is happening in many parts of the country now could so easily have been prevented," said Dawit Wolde Giorgis, commissioner of relief and rehabilitation. "It needed the horrifying pictures of death and starvation on the television screens in North America and Europe to galvanize the world into taking notice of what was happening...