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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Wilson was being candid in his explanation, however, it did seem strange for him to resign just when currencies were in turmoil (with the pound dipping below $2 for the first time ever) and the British economy was afflicted with rampant inflation (23.4%) and rising (now 5.6%) unemployment. It would have seemed that Wilson would have wanted to stay at least until April 6 for the presentation of a new budget that will reflect his new austerity policy. But Wilson may have wanted to step down early so as to give his successor maximum time to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Harold Wilson's Stunning Last Surprise | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...struggle still going on in China (TIME, Feb. 23). Clearly, Moscow hopes that the winners will decide to be more friendly to the Russians. Chinese military leaders, at the same time, are apparently fearful of provoking an unwinnable war with the Soviet Union, particularly during a period of internal turmoil. The few Western officials who know about the clashes do not want to appear to be deliberately worsening the Sino-Soviet conflict by disclosing their information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Top-Secret Skirmishes | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...hope of ending the disruptive crises that had become almost routine with rigidly fixed currency values. But the floating-rate system-under which currencies pretty much find their own value in the market-is proving that it too can suffer, if not a crisis, then a period of turmoil. The troubles are pallid by past standards: central banks are spending only millions, rather than billions, to defend their countries' currencies, and no exchange offices are refusing to accept tourists' foreign money. Nonetheless, some currencies are not so much floating as drowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Drowning in a World of Floating Values | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...George-Brown went on TV to announce his decision to quit the party after 40 years. The move, prompted by George-Brown's fear that press freedom would be threatened by a Labor proposal requiring all journalists to join a union, was made only after considerable personal turmoil-and some alcoholic fortification. After a brief, halting speech, delivered while waving a glass of white wine, George-Brown backed away from the cameras, left the studio and fell on his face in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Fall | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

There are many historical and institutional reasons for the discord that now cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Dean For the GSD | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

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