Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determine how much more money taxpayers in the US. and other countries will make available for a bailout fund. Late in the week, those ministers, convened as the Interim Committee of the Board of Governors of the 146-nation International Monetary Fund, made their decision known. Committee Chairman Sir Geoffrey Howe announced at IMF headquarters that the fund's lending authority to less-developed countries would be increased by about 47%, from $66 billion to $97 billion...
...Sir John Kerr London
Exhibit No. 1 is The Detling Secret, a novel molded into the shape of the classic whodunit. The setting is England, the time the 1890s. Sir Arthur Detling is a crusty old Tory, holder of "one of the most ancient baronetcies in the land." Among the burdens Sir Arthur must bear is his older daughter Dolly's determination to marry Bernard Ross, a Liberal M.P. with a mysterious past: although born in England, he spent part of his childhood in the U.S. Sir Arthur disapproves of his new son-in-law and of Parliament, which he calls "the talking...
...greatest of maestros should have proved himself in symphonic music as well as in opera. Levine has not done that. Sir Georg Solti has. If you compare their respective recordings of Mozart's Don Giovanni, you will discern how superior Solti's conducting...
Improbable as it might seem, Clio Goldsmith, 25, gave little thought to a career in acting until two years ago. The Paris-born niece of British Financier Sir James Goldsmith, 49, has since finished eight European movies. "I hardly see myself as a sex symbol," says she, "but it is lovely pretending." American audiences will have their first chance to see her pretending in The Gift, a French farce due out in March. As the going-away present given to a retiring banker by his office chums, Goldsmith is a dimpled, tousled-haired romp in the hay who might just...