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...franc down in order to gain a trade advantage over other countries. The Italian lira is in trouble as usual but even so, it has gained against the dollar since January-though only because the Bank of Italy has been spending as much as $100 million a day to prop up the lira's price...
...Crimson prop Rich Whiting primed Harvard's pump with four points when he fell on a blocked kick in Princeton's end zone...
...Prop Bill "Moon" Mullin, in the tourney's worst injury, was stretchered off the field into an ambulance after wrenching his neck and upper back in a scrum against Dartmouth...
Another symptom of the void at the top was Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's unilateral decision two weeks ago to buy $45 million worth of beef for the Government's school-lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...
...course this clod does not retain enough usable Latin to translate a tombstone, but he cannot admit it. What is excellent about the Nash translations, however, is not only that the English original is on the facing page (an indispensable prop to dignity) but that the poems are very short. This is a great advance over a famous similar confection of a few years back called Winnie IIle Pooh...