Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Homestake contribution could be encompassed in a solid gold cube 12 ft. to a side, worth at present prices about $10 billion. But at Homestake, the road to El Dorado is mostly dark, deep, hot and dirty. The gold keeps getting harder to find and the tunnels and shafts grow deeper and longer. There are now 250 miles of underground cart tracks, and some shafts plunge so deep toward the earth's molten core that the temperature reaches 135° F. Expenses go on rising. It now costs $200 to extract each ounce of Homestake gold. That is high...
...accepted the constitutional changes, the Patriotic Front offered a proposal for power sharing and the organization of security forces during the transitional period before new elections. Nkomo and Mugabe suggested an eight-man transitional governing council, composed of four guerrilla representatives plus four other members representing Britain and the present Salisbury government, with the British member acting as chairman. They also called for a joint Patriotic Front-Salisbury "transitional defense committee" to oversee the country's security force, and suggested a U.N. peacekeeping mission instead of the Commonwealth force favored by Carrington and Muzorewa...
...clearly a result of that relationship and not the cause of it. From the beginning Nixon was determined to dominate the most important negotiations. Throughout his term, when a state visitor was received in the Oval Office by Nixon for a lengthy discussion, I was the only other American present...
...fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July, as governments try to curb inflation. But the U.S. has been playing catch-up with European and Japanese rates. At present, U.S. interest levels are no higher than existing U.S. inflation rates; thus there is scant reason for money traders to buy dollar-denominated short-term securities, since they earn nothing. Other currencies are a better buy. For example, even though the West German prime rate of 7.75% is more than...
Mike Horn, the present coach of the men's and women's sailing teams here, has watched the Harvard sailing program grow in recent years. A 1963 Harvard graduate and former sailor, Horn said this week, "In 1963 we did everything by ourselves. By comparison things are pretty good today...