Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Englishwoman who was never very pro-American. Now, however, the U.S. has all my sympathy. It is expected to help out every Tom, Dick and Harry as the years go by, and gets precious little thanks for what it does. People say President Carter dithers. Who wouldn't with the "friends...
After the Civil War, gold bonds were issued to entice inflation-wary investors. Some 1895 bonds promise to pay in gold the interest every year and the face value in full in 1995. While the 1895 price of gold was $20.67 per oz., the precious metal closed in New York last week at $511. For decades the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the largest remaining ingot bond issuer, dutifully made 2% semiannual interest payments in gold coin. But in 1933, Congress struck the gold clause and restricted the bonds' interest and principal payments to cash...
...tries to keep a tight rein on advising. While Moses says he considers "informal, off the cuff advice a precious resource," he is disturbed with "the premise that it's going to provide the best advice." The upperclassmen who work on the Freshman Task Force receive training from...
...museum, James Lee Byars painstakingly centers on the front desk top a one-inch by one-inch public announcement of his exhibit; he measures an imaginary square to frame it and places the announcement lovingly in the middle. Then he searches the museum for a suitable vase for the precious pink rose (one of many which he distributed that morning) which lies next to the announcement; but he fails, slightly annoyed that a German Museum should lack such a common object. This is the delicate introduction to "The Exhibit of Perfect...
...reduction in the diverse, often lively voices of independent newspapers. There are complaints, too, that chains tend to be obsessed with profits and indifferent to editorial excellence. Says Congressman Morris Udall, an Arizona Democrat who is an outspoken opponent of chains: "I think you are losing something pretty precious when you have a large organization ... that is more interested in the bottom line than what's good for the community...