Word: safe
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Other companies have found a wide variety of operations that can be done better underground. For H&R Block, the caves are a safe place to keep tons of tax forms. The U.S. Postal Service's Philatelic Order Fulfillment Branch, with 48 employees, processes 1,200 requests daily from its hole in the ground. It likes the security advantages and the fact that in the low-humidity atmosphere the $100 million worth of stamps it keeps there do not stick together...
...timing, he was expecting the nod, and so was Wall Street. The stock market, which not long ago dropped sharply when it seemed that Volcker might be replaced, resumed its happy rise last week. Spurred in part by the growing conviction that the Fed Chairman's job was safe, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 46 points, its second largest weekly gain this year, and reached a record high of 1242.19. Said New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "Volcker's monetary policy has been criticized by almost everybody and is therefore probably right." Reaction on Capitol Hill...
John Glenn, of course, is no Eisenhower, a man who ran armies, and his candidacy is not the safe and generally predictable one that the laid-back Ike's was. Glenn's assets have been understated-and so have his liabilities...
...anti-Americanism in Britain. I hope I killed it. I spoke about it because I think there was, probably because of the cruise missiles, a bit of anti-Americanism. But the moment you remind people that the world is not likely to be free or safe unless we and the U.S. stick together, and of the fantastic generosity of the U.S. to Europe, putting it on its feet with the Marshall Plan, immediately they get their things in perspective. People are not anti-American really. It is really like being members of the same family: they work up resentment...
...elsewhere to finance drilling, steel production, roads, hospitals and increased automobile manufacturing. Bankers in New York, Tokyo and London dispensed the money after only cursory precautions because the loans were paying lucratively high interest rates of as much as 17%. Moreover, it all seemed so safe. Mexico's oil exports were rising from a paltry 200,000 bbls. daily in 1977 to 1.5 million bbls. in 1982. Last year, in fact, the country surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest supplier of foreign...