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The two agencies issued a terse one-paragraph announcement that the U.S. would actively begin supporting its weakening currency on world markets. That afternoon, the Federal Reserve began buying up unwanted dollars to shore up their price. The move touched off one of the wildest dollar rallies ever, but the...
Garbage can be golden," gushes New York City Sanitation Commissioner Anthony Vaccarello. "Garbage is the sow's ear that can be turned into a silk purse," adds Michael Dingman, president of Wheelabrator-Frye, a maker of environmental-control equipment. Such glowing descriptions of refuse, which is more conventionally considered...
As a fire-insurance adjuster in Minnesota, I can see benefits of the wood stove [Dec. 5] to the homeowner and disaster to the small insurance companies. You wouldn't believe the wild ideas people have. Cheap little stoves that get red hot. Good stoves too near the walls...
True enough, but the U.S. is paying dearly in international ill will, and the dollar's plunge has undesirable side effects. For example, some countries have been buying up unwanted dollars to keep the price from dropping further; that can increase money supply in the purchasing countries and add...
TO CALL Agnes Varda's latest film, One Sings, The Other Doesn't, feminist art is to insult both feminism and art. Such claims will undoubtedly be made, however, for Varda sets her story of the long-term friendship of two women against the back-drop of the feminist movement...