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Springborn has been an early riser for years, but there is now special urgency to his work as director of the Treasury's office of foreign-exchange operations. Since last week's meeting of finance ministers from the five largest industrial democracies, reining in the dollar has become a matter of passionate U.S. concern. Unlike stocks, bonds or even pork bellies, currencies are not traded in one or two large buildings in a few major cities. The foreign-exchange market is a worldwide network of private banks, linked by phones and computers, that buy and sell money round the clock...
...Rather, Tom Brokaw and PBS's Robert MacNeil and courted almost every other news star in the business. Signing Brinkley permits Arledge to go ahead with the new Sunday-morning show-scheduled to air from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.-providing an alternative to early-riser Charles Kuralt on CBS. On Friday night, incredulous ABC News staffers were still recovering from the shock waves. Said one: "I do not know why NBC couldn't find a way to accommodate him. He is the most eminent newsman." Many of Brinkley's colleagues at NBC bitterly...
...onstage. He then demands that, barring illness or death, everyone stay for the last curtain call; there is no rude rushing for the exits as the actors are taking their bows, a bad but common practice in most other theaters. When he was younger, Price once pushed an early riser back into his seat; he almost got a black eye in return. Now he merely points to such people, imperiously commanding them to sit down from a distance. Those occasions are now rare, however, and Price often drives in from his home across the river to say goodbye to audiences...
...books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin Coolidge used...
...riser"--or vertical water main--burst in New Quincy and left large areas of the building without heat until yesterday, Norman Goodwin Jr., B & G utilities managers, said yesterday...