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...pledges of contributions from IMF members in their own currencies. Nations would automatically participate in accordance with their regular IMF deposits; the U.S., for example, provides 24.59% of the fund's resources, the Common Market 17%. But only 30% of the issued SDKs would ever need to be repaid; the balance would become a permanent increase in each country's liquid assets. SDKs would exist only on the books of the IMF and its member nations. Only governments would be eligible to use them-and only to settle debts (not, for example, to buy goods or to raid...
...speculator's dream. Back in 1965, a group of plungers risked $250 a share to form Cloverlay Inc., whose sole asset was Joe Frazier's punching power. Cloverlay agreed to pay Frazier's manager and training expenses, guarantee Joe $100 a week. Joe has repaid his stockholders handsomely. Some fight fans could protest that Frazier was not in the same class with deposed Champion Cassius Clay-and they might be right-yet he clearly proved last week that he is a legitimate pretender to the dethroned champion's crown. Conceding...
...been sorely strapped for capital to complete its switchover to color television programming, will need additional funds for coverage of this year's national political conventions. To help out its prospective partner, ITT last year advanced ABC $25 million, which must now be repaid-with interest-within a year...
...well that he soon became known in Brazil as "Travancas the Terrible." He doubled the number of taxpayers (to 3,000,000), raised revenues from $135 million a year to $960 million, and forced Brazilians for the first time to take their taxes seriously. Last week Travancas got repaid with interest for his efforts. As part of his move to "humanize" his government, President Arthur Costa e Silva called Travancas in and summarily sacked...
After 25 years of marriage, Tolstoy repaid her by publishing The Kreutzer Sonata, a combination novel of manners, tract against sexual relations, and confession. On the surface, there is nothing in The Kreutzer Sonata to link Tolstoy and Pozdnyshev, the protagonist. But Tolstoy did reveal many incidents of their private lives-the young bride being shocked at his frankly lustful diary, a quarrel about whether or not to move to Moscow, his resentment over her refusal to nurse their babies. More important, Pozdnyshev's theories and feelings reflected Tolstoy's. Having exalted marriage and condemned adultery in Anna...