Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Essay "What to Do About the Dollar" [Oct. 9] pushes selling gold, buying dollars, tight money. These are nothing but currency manipulations. No number of fiscal and monetary Band-Aids will do. Currency, after all, is only a medium of exchange. Stand on a street corner and watch the Toyotas, Mercedes and Volkswagens go by. This country has to produce goods with performance, quality and dependability. Tight money, recession and unemployment are no substitutes for productivity. We've got to rediscover value and go to work...
...least the cool fun. Garp's trusted friend is the transsexual Roberta Muldoon, formerly Old Number 88; the crack-backing, pass-catching Robert Muldoon, star tight-end for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Roberta finally dies, there is a moment of silence before the Eagles take the field. "She had a great pair of hands," the announcer intones reverently...
CONNECTICUT. In a tight race for Governor, Democratic Incumbent Ella Grasso has discovered that a chief problem is her own rather earthy personality. An old-school politician who gives as well as she gets, Grasso called her primary opponent an s.o.b., among other things...
While the search for a settlement foundered, Lebanon's beleaguered Christians held tight to the remnants of a shattered past. Indeed, Christianity has long been fractured within this complex country: in addition to the dominant Maronites - a branch of the Roman Catholic Church that preserves its own unique liturgy - there are Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Armenians and Chaldeans, among others. Since Lebanon became independent from France in 1943, the Maronites, who then made up 30% of the population, have been the major force in politics and the economy. Under the "national covenant," an unwritten agreement with the force...
...seem too much like old buddies, rather than old and reck less lovers. Jackson brings overflowing energy to the part. Physically she is mesmerizing. Playing the imperious Queen, she uses broad, almost sculptured arm gestures. A moment later she is running like a girl or jumping dervish-like in tight circles. But there are no pauses or silences here, and finally no intimacy with An tony. The characterization, for all its motion, is static...