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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Essay "What to Do About the Dollar" [Oct. 9] pushes selling gold, buying dollars, tight money. These are nothing but currency manipulations. No number of fiscal and monetary Band-Aids will do. Currency, after all, is only a medium of exchange. Stand on a street corner and watch the Toyotas, Mercedes and Volkswagens go by. This country has to produce goods with performance, quality and dependability. Tight money, recession and unemployment are no substitutes for productivity. We've got to rediscover value and go to work...
...they wanted Carter to appear as businesslike as possible for the occasion and to address the viewers from behind his desk in the Oval Office. "It's not going to be very chatty," said an aide. "It is going to be a sober, realistic appraisal of where we stand and what we need...
...speech at the 1978 convention, Murphy stood up and said, "Behind a lot of this (support for restructuring), we see schools with like desires on financial aid limitations. Are there schools in this room that do not like the 30 and the 95? If so, why don't they stand...
James C. Thompson, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said yesterday he was "unsure if the New York Times is on the right course. Bad law is made out of bad cases, and I'm not sure this was a very strong case. The New York Times chose to stand firm, and at least emerged intact from this confrontation...
...myth that Allen is still the totally nervous, completely incompetent schlep; inept in daily life and in his relationships. Fact is, Allen is as well-adjusted, self-actualized as he will ever be, and, after years of struggle--through analysis and through self-expression in his films and stand-up comedy--he seems relatively at ease and happy. The documentary's only redeeming value is that it presents this other side...