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...sight: the armor consisted of hundreds of lacquered leather platelets, like fish scales, bound together with silk cord. But his mask, finial, badge and troops' standard, all in one, was the helmet, on whose design much fantasy and theatrical cunning were expended. Because they were an inviting target for the other side, not many helmets survive. The best that do, considered as sculpture, are unique in their formal beauty and dramatic power...
Many conference participants supported a proposal for so-called monetary target zones. This would mean that each country's currency would be allowed to rise and fall only within a predetermined range. If the dollar, yen or other money rose or fell too far, central banks would intervene in foreign-exchange markets and stabilize the rate. Some European currencies are already bound by such a regime: the European Monetary System...
...York City's Plaza Hotel. The group agreed that the dollar was too powerful and tacitly decided to depress its value by selling dollars and buying other currencies. Robert Hormats, former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, believes that without saying so, the Treasury Department is eyeing a target zone for the dollar. Says he: "The U.S. changed its policy at the Plaza and didn't announce it formally...
...that stopped other White House dancers in their tracks. "I tried to do my fanciest footwork with her," said the still glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded, "She has given America what it craved, glamour, glitz . . . Dianasty." There were some fluffed lines, to be sure. At the White House banquet, President Reagan introduced...
...right-field blast with two on and two out in the bottom of the sixth inning soared through the cloudless blue sky, cutting through the air with velocity and momentum. But both the ball and Harvard’s dreams of a comeback fell just short of the target...