Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial drawing and quartering. For, as unsubstantiated rumors of everything from a cash squeeze on a major West German bank to a possible pending loan default by Bolivia swirled about, the somber-spirited financiers found themselves wrestling with the difficult task of trying to shore up sagging confidence in the world banking system...
...violent assaults may spring from explosive family tensions. "Overage criminals feel they are no longer bound to a system that has no place for them," concludes Criminologist Gary Feinberg of Biscayne College in Miami. "They are adrift, and society has provided them with neither map nor itinerary nor friendly shore...
Sudden moves in the market have often come at dramatic turning points in the course of economic policy. On Nov. 1, 1978, the Dow Jones average gained 35 points after President Carter unfurled a dramatic plan to shore up the value of the dollar in international commerce. On Oct. 6, 1979, the Federal Reserve Board announced a historic policy change by adopting a more monetarist approach for controlling the U.S. money supply. That had the immediate impact of sharply boosting interest rates. Within a week, the Dow dropped almost 59 points...
Dead water birds, their gooey bodies strewed along a filthy shore. It is a sadly familiar scene in the wake of a major oil spill. For one man, however, the sight evoked more curiosity than pathos. After viewing photos of the 1967 Torrey Canyon grounding off the Cornish coast, Al Crotti, an American international lawyer based in London, had a novel idea: "If feathers attracting the oil are part of the problem, why can't feathers be part of the solution?" Why not indeed? Now being added to the arsenal of weapons for fighting oil spills is Seaclean...
...Marine of Alachua, Fla. Tom Lindholm, 57, of Hidden Hills, Calif., has left his law practice in the hands of his partner and son to take the helm of his 41-ft. sloop Driftwood. Dan Byrne, 53, of Santa Monica, Calif., is relying on his wife Patricia to provide shore support; she intends to meet him and his 40-ft. Fantasy in every port...