Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...madness, as usual, was not over precious metals so much as money-specifically the battered U.S. dollar. Once again greenbacks were being sold off heavily in world markets in exchange for more robust currencies. Struggling to keep the buck from plunging further, which would hurt West German exports, the Bundesbank spent $1.2 billion in deutsche marks to buy up unwanted dollars last week. By happenstance, as the buck was worrying down again, central bankers, finance ministers and some 6,000 other leading moneymen were gathering in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for the annual meeting of the 138-nation International Monetary Fund. Treasury...
...Your precious Harvard will lose to Mass. 20-7! And my precious Brown, even without Mark Whipple, will defeat R.I., let's say by a score of - well not less than...
Perhaps worse, department heads nonchalantly accept their colleagues' blatant evasion of tutorial responsibility. Without exception, they admit they have not considered how they might enforce the regulations in the future. One wonders why the Faculty devoted so much of their precious committee time to disputing the fine points of the legislation when they had no intention of obeying the basic premise of the reforms...
...Green scoreless the rest of the way. Jim Quinn paced the Wildcat offense with 89 yards on the ground, while Jeff DuFresne led Dartmouth with 107. The vaunted Kemp-Shula passing combination connected four times for 54 yards and one TD, but other than that the two teams showed precious little offense, as each punter kicked nine times...
Prices of other precious metals such as platinum and palladium have also soared, as have those of diamonds, pearls, stamps, art and antiques. In the past month silver has risen 65%, while gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf...