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...Germans did not intend anything quite so grand. They simply could not think of any other way to stave off a speculative crisis. Convinced that a new socialist government would raise the value of the mark, speculators clamored to buy German money. In just 90 minutes of trading on the morning after the election, $250 million poured into the Bundesbank from abroad. The outgoing Kiesinger government was in no position to stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark...
...Ohio. But they were in the right queue. With their families, 450 San Marinese had enthusiastically boarded jets holding tickets paid for by the republic's Christian Democratic Party. Their mission was to help the Christian Democrats, leaders of the coalition that has ruled the country since 1957, stave off a ballot-box challenge by San Marino's Communist Party...
STAIRCASE. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton portray two bickering homosexuals struggling to stave off old age and loneliness in this unobtrusive film that never yields to the temptation to play its two deviate characters for laughs...
Harvard's other hopefuls are freestylers Stave Krause, Dave Powlison, Toby Gerhart, and Mike Cahalan. All four have been outstanding this season, and if the Elis should for some reason not be mentally up for the meet, a couple of them might net firsts...
...dived into the oily swells for fish, most never to surface alive. All along the mucky shoreline, birds lay dead or dying, unable to raise their oil-soaked feathers. Survivors were rushed to one or three centers nearby to be cleaned in a chemical solution, then carefully wrapped to stave off pneumonia and placed in warm pens to recover. Of the more than 500 birds brought in by week's end, two-thirds had survived. The fouled waters threatened thousands of rookeries on the Santa Barbara Islands, haven for the sea elephant, the Guadalupe fur seal (once thought extinct...