Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy for the artists' families, who had to endure the discomforts of the journey and then, somehow, acclimatize themselves to the utter unfamiliarity of French life. One senses a feeling of doom beneath the stoic words written by Yoneko, the wife of Saeki Yuzo, who spent two sojourns there: "After returning to Japan, my husband, it seems to me, was constantly thinking he could only accomplish the task remaining to him during his life by going back to Paris in order to paint the soiled walls and loosely-fixed posters he found on the back streets." Saeki today...
...head with his right big toe. Such displays of animal high spirits were not, however, confined to the gentleman's later years. When young, Waterton made four separate trips to South America, where he sought the wourali poison (a cure, he was convinced, for hydrophobia), and once spent months on end with one foot dangling from his hammock in the quixotic hope of having his toe sucked by a vampire...
...reduces the power of the authorities to use psychiatric confinement as punishment could be put to an early test. Members of a Moscow-based group called Press Club Glasnost, composed mostly of former political prisoners, last week pointed to the case of Lev Ubozhko, 54, a Moscow dissident who spent 15 years in psychiatric hospitals before being freed last spring. They said Ubozhko had been rearrested and was being held in a psychiatric hospital at Chelyabinsk in the Urals, where he was taken after the director of a Moscow hospital refused to admit him on the ground that he appeared...
...dollar continued to slip even though foreign governments spent almost + $100 billion during 1987 to prop up the currency. By late December the dollar went into a nose dive. Unbeknown to most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once...
...amount the governments spent on their intervention, an estimated $6 billion last week, is dwarfed by the total amount of dollar trading, some $150 billion, that swirls through the currency markets each day. But the central banks can move the market because of their resolute purpose; they hold on to their purchases, even at a loss, while speculators constantly churn their holdings. Moreover, last week's intervention was far more aggressive and flamboyant than usual. The Fed, which generally makes orders in $10 million batches, was trading marks for dollars in king-size packages of $25 million. Normally...