Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the behavior of currency markets since December, last week had to be counted as one of the dollar's best. After hitting new lows with monotonous regularity, the greenback suddenly rose against the superstrong West German and Swiss currencies, reaching 2.05 deutsche marks and 2.0 Swiss francs, v. lows of 1.98 and 1.75 two weeks ago. The rise accelerated at week's end after President Carter announced that U.S. and German officials have been conferring by telephone about concrete new plans for strengthening the dollar; Carter himself chatted with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for 15 minutes...
...midst of a debate over a clause in the convention's proposed constitution that would provide for special representation for minority groups, one delegate rose to argue that the clause would violate the principle of one man, one vote equality...
...lineal descendant of the late Senate Bill 1, which died in the Senate Judiciary Committee during the summer of 1976, when it met heavy liberal opposition because of fearsome provisions in the areas of sentencing and restraints on a free press. Out of the ashes of that bill rose S. 1437. The trick is that the body of the bill remains substantially the same, with most of the changes in the aforementioned areas...
...state flower of Georgia is the Cherokee rose...
...went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having had enough of this Blanche DuBois-Belle Reve trip, I pretended to go to sleep, but this wasn't good enough for her. She kept whacking me in the side with...