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Prices of other inflation hedges were also trimmed. A flawless one-carat diamond fell from $26,500 to $19,500. Coins, stamps and Chinese ceramics declined in value. Interestingly, precious metals did not. By the end of the year, gold was selling for $448 per oz., up from $400, and silver had risen from $8.25 to $10.90. One explanation: fears among some investors that efforts to lift the world economy out of recession will set off a round of hyperinflation...
...season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance to economic development. It can take a year for water entering the swamp to course through twisting channels; during that time, half of the precious liquid evaporates or is absorbed by plants...
Hoffman is a truly demonic fussbudget, who must pull any character he plays out of his own memories, experiences and emotions, which means that he has precious little objectivity about his creations. "I can't act a moral," says Hoffman. "The best I can do is speak personally, not say this is the way it is, or should be, but this is true of me." In the film, Michael says he knows what it is to be a woman precisely because he is an actor. "An actor waits by the phone," he cries; "he has no power when...
...satisfaction of civilization, precious little would seem to be gained by conducting an execution in so private a manner as was Brooks'. Four reporters were allowed in, and it is to them that we are indebted for the descriptions of Brooks' yawning, wheezing and clutching for air. Otherwise the public, unlike the audiences at old-fashioned hangings and beheadings, would have had to rely on its imagination. Granted, the imagination was boosted by sketches in newspapers showing exactly how the execution room looked, with Brooks stretched out on a hospital gurney rolled up beside a brick wall with...
Intense beliefs, eternal optimism and precious little adaptability...