Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mark, 29% against the Japanese yen and 34% against the Swiss franc-and even 9% against the Indian rupee. The Carter Administration has responded with a Dr. Feelgood litany that the dollar's health is sound, and that it will recover from its indisposition if everyone will only wait long enough. But the world's money traders are not buying that happy talk and are now demanding fundamental shifts in U.S. dollar policy...
Before they can take any major actions, the committee members must wait for Rosovsky to appoint more members in the next week or two. Only two subcommittees--for Expository Writing and the math requirement--now have all their members...
...Neill and Senate Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) said no attempt will be made to rewrite the public works bill before Congress adjourns October 14. But he added that a follow-up resolution would guarantee financing for existing projects, while new ones included in the bill will wait until next year...
...goal of a West Bank state. This compromise was necessary and good, as a Palestinian state is both justified in its own right and essential to peace. But the majority errs in placing the burden for future gains solely on the Israelis by advocating that the Arab states wait and see what Israel will do. It fails to realize that Syria and the P L O have rejected the accords on principle, not because Begin reneged. Instead the Arab states and the Palestinians should--as should Begin--act affirmatively to implement the accord...
...with his young son rose even higher when, during World War II, he was kept under surveillance by a couple of FBI men (the Journal-American had discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...