Word: remains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy over the DC-10 again raises the question of whether federal regulators work too closely with the industry they regulate to remain as critical as they should be. Certainly the DC-10 was rushed into production in the early 1970s in a successful race to catch up with the TriStar, its main rival. Were corners cut by both the manufacturer and its watchdogs in the heat of competition...
...McDonnell Douglas will need every bit of its strength to remain healthy in face of the consequences of the Chicago crash. Its potential liabilities...
...everyone know from the start that he is unequivocal on both dogma and discipline. He drew far less opposition than Paul when he too reaffirmed the celibacy rule for priests in April. In fact, the new Pope is more conservative than Paul: he has made clear that priests should remain faithful to their vows, rather than seek laicization. He not only flatly opposes divorce and remarriage but has provoked speculation that he will tighten up on the granting of annulments...
Much of the recent buying comes from beyond Europe. Speculators in Turkey have made fabulous profits by hoarding gold as a hedge against their own sharply declining currency. The Arabs remain major buyers, and they like to get gold in 400-ounce bars (now worth about $110,000 each). Germany's Dresdner Bank is rumored to be holding 50 tons of gold for Arab accounts. It was presumably for those customers that the bank scooped up 652,000 of the 750,000 ounces auctioned off last month by the U.S. Treasury...
...tableware, was about 17 million ounces greater than the supplies of 433 million ounces from regular channels, and the remainder had to be made up by dipping into private stockpiles. A slowing of the world economy might cause prices to decline. But until that happens, precious metals will remain an expensive security blanket for nervous investors...