Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preach from ten till four," imaginative judges like to find ways to make the punishment fit the crime. San Diego Municipal Judge Artie Henderson sends teen-agers caught purse snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even...
...that the U.S. would intervene if necessary to keep exchange markets orderly. That had only a momentary stabilizing effect, so Blumenthal decided to draw on a portion of the approximately $20 billion worth of foreign currencies that the U.S. can borrow from other countries under long-standing "swap" agreements. Such borrowings permit a country to buy up a specific quantity of its own currency without dipping into official reserves. Blumenthal discussed the plan several times with outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, a longtime worrier about the dollar, while both were vacationing in Florida between Christmas and New Year...
...that we would not allow disorderly markets, yet that is what this thing was becoming-totally irrational." First thing Wednesday morning. Federal Reserve officials telephoned their counterparts at the West German Bundesbank. The Germans eagerly agreed to make available the $2 billion worth of marks provided by an existing swap agreement, and reportedly even to kick in as much as $2 billion more...
Since a subscription to the daily Gazette then cost $56 a year, Roesgen accepted the offer as a way of dramatizing the farmers' plight. Then, sowing the seeds of a new kind of circulation campaign, he ran a front-page headline announcing that the paper would swap print for wheat at the federal support price of $3.05 per bu. (Meanwhile, the subscription price was raised to $61-or 20 bu. of wheat.) In ten days the Gazette had exchanged 100 new subscriptions for 2,000 bu. of wheat, which it stored in a parking lot next to the newspaper...
Long won a close race for majority whip, and when Olin Johnston died the following year, he got the desk back as well. He has not had to swap it since. But that is not to say he would not ? if the quid were worth the quo. Russell Long has raised the art of political horse trading to the highest level in living congressional memory. An unabashed wheeler-dealer, he scratches backs with a fine, silken stroke, then calls in his debts with a firm arm twist. He also repays his own lous with interest. "I gave Russell...