Word: strength
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Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who heads the Senate's International Trade Subcommittee, expressed concern about the U.S. trade deficit. Danforth avoided attributing the strength of the dollar to the federal budget deficit, but he said, to the general agreement of the Canadians, "Something has gone terribly wrong with the international trading system. This is not free trade as we envisioned it." A telling comment on Danforth's view emerged at the beginning of the week during a meeting with Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, when the Canadians learned that talks with Japan on telecommunications had been suspended that very...
Currency Market Intervention. Peterson believes that if the first three steps are implemented, fundamental causes of the dollar's strength, like interest rates, will begin "moving in the right direction" and the dollar will decline in the long run. "Then," he says, "exchange-rate intervention can help the trend along." Peterson warns, however, that "if the fundamentals are moving in the wrong direction, intervention could prove expensive and futile...
...research unit has to date accumulated 30,000 pages of written reports of the experiences of nearly 5,000 individuals. Some are concrete (seeing a third eye in a friend's forehead); most, however, just convey vague feelings like, "I was aware of something that was giving me strength and keeping me going." Hardy and his small team analyzed the reports and developed 92 categories...
...squad's 5-0 victory over the University of Vermont Saturday (which brought the Crimson's final record to 12-9-1) the program's greatest strength--its individuals--was spotlighted...
Five dedicated individuals, each both a product of and force behind the strength of Harvard's women's hockey program...