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...countries that stand to lose least from a gold increase are those that put their faith in gold and were eager to cash in their American dollars to get it. France, for example, would be little touched. Since August it has been getting rid of its dollars by using them to pay its international debts, and at last count half of its $6.5 billion reserve was in gold. The Netherlands certainly would come out ahead, because it holds far more gold than dollars; Italy would about break even. The $10.2 billion worth of gold held by the U.S. would...
This outfit and the scholar's yeshiva students outrage a Jewish suburban group that looks on Unitarianism as rather a nice solution to any questions of Jewishness. The lawyer is appointed to rid the community of these symbols of religious exclusivity and suffering. But the lawyer undergoes a transformation of identity and winds up wearing the D.P.'s clothing, and beating his breast in ritual anguish. Michael Tolan undergoes this probe of the tribal subconscious with moving sensitivity...
...city manager goes, after the one we have now is gotten rid of, we should institute a nationwide search for a talented and progressive person who will be responsive to the directions of Council votes...
...fait accompli: "...neglect and loneliness have no effect on me anymore. I feel no pain of mind or body, and the harder it gets the better I like it." But then he adds in what is probably a more realistic reflection of his state of development. "I must rid myself of all sentiment and remove all possibility of love." He envisions that ultimately. "After I am finished with myself, an observer who could read my thoughts and watch my actions would never believe that I was raised in the United States, and much less would he believe that I came...
...unconscious one. But by working behind the backs of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier to gain control of the department--through meetings and deals with students. Overseers, other faculty and Pusey himself--Kilbridge skirted the guidelines of academic due process. By suggesting to a student-faculty council ways of "getting rid of" he infringed on academic freedom and slandered three colleagues. By first complimenting Hartman on his work as director of the UFS and then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision...