Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide financial help in easing the problem of sterling balances, which weaken the pound's stability. Sterling balances are pound deposits held in British banks by foreigners that can be withdrawn on a moment's notice; they are often dumped on foreign-exchange markets at the first sign of economic trouble. Callaghan, like many other Prime Ministers before him, wants to convert these volatile short-term deposits to long-term debts; precisely how this will be done and what kind of financial help the U.S. and West Germany will extend to accomplish it remain to be negotiated...
...minutes). The screen keeps score. Pong and other games emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase noises). They can also be used for squash and handball. In the ticktacktoe game, the set may sneer, flashing a sign-off YOU LOSE TURKEY. For those who want to be the neighborhood Bobby Hull, most of the sets programmed for tennis also provide a hockey game in which armchair dudes can try to blast a puck past an agile goalie. Soccer aficionados can pretend they are Pelé, since the same game simulates...
...Whenever I sign up for anything. I usually make it clear to the person in charge that I'm David E.," he says...
...Sadat has met with 33 U.S. Senators and Congressmen visiting the Middle East. Confirming what he had said to TIME (Nov. 29), he told one delegation, headed by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that he was ready to go to a Geneva conference "without preconditions," and would sign a peace agreement with Israel. Sadat's plan also calls for total Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied since 1967, as well as United Nations peace-keeping forces to patrol the frontiers and guarantee free movement of ships in the Aqaba Gulf...
...mission in moving to ABC was to pull the network out of last place in the evening news sweepstakes. In two months on the job, she has delivered 300 news items, conducted 17 on-air interviews, and smiled bravely through 38 of Co-Anchorman Harry Reasoner's sign-off witticisms. The result: ABC is still last and, in fact, further behind the leader...