Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glitter in the eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value of their reserves with the scratch of a pen. The U.S., which has not joined the revaluation trend, still reckons the worth of its 8,516-ton gold hoard at $35 an ounce, or $ 11.5 billion...
Buyers have the itch; dealers get some scratch...
...told twice what it was a customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter of an hour. If you asked her the cost, she began to mull it over and scratch under her wig with a hairpin. If the customer bought on credit and Zeldele marked down the amount, she couldn't make out later what she had written. When the war came and German marks ... came into use, she grew completely bewildered. Eli abused her in front...
...smaller ice cream stores in the Square use a commercial mix base for their ice cream because the equipment needed to make ice cream from scratch costs half a million dollars, Citron said. The mix is supplied by large commercial concerns such as H.P. Hood...
...Denver program, one of the nation's most advanced, teachers started from scratch and wrote a textbook with the help of the Colorado office of energy conservation. The course involves 390 students in six Jefferson County schools. Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much...