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...vicious circle in which inflation weakens the dollar and a drop in the dollar spurs more inflation. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, with Blumenthal's support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into a panic-by which time the greenback had sunk 18% against the German mark and 26% against both the yen and Swiss franc. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber. "The U.S. this year paid a heavy price to learn something about world money markets. One of the tragedies is that there was nobody in the Treasury Department with...
While trying to run out the clock, McLaughlin drew an offensive foul, sunk both foul shots and put the Classics up, 84-81, and the game out of reach...
...Dramat has a similar advisory board made up of faculty and administrators. Yale President Giamatti sat on the board at one time. The board could not overrule the drama school administration, but it could apply pressure. "If they hadn't been around," Bailey says, "we would have been sunk...
...field goal attempts, before the Crimson regained control of the ball at 1:54 after Bentley's Greg Sims was called for traveling. The Crimson spread out with Fine and Allen doing most of the ball-handling. Fine came to the line with 1:18 to play and coolly sunk two foul shots to run the score...
...work were all set forth well before World War I, and it is on the period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...