Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Side rooming house, where he slept huddled beneath piles of worn-out overcoats on a floor that was heaped to a height of two feet with yellowing newspapers, empty cans, cheese rinds and mice months dead in the traps he had set for them. Troubled with weak eyesight since childhood (and later by gout, malnutrition and kidney disease as well), he stayed indoors during the day, roamed the streets of Manhattan by night, dressed in tatters, often pausing in a reverie to stare at the moon for minutes at a time...
...international monetary affairs, Friedman contends that today's system of fixed exchange rates should be scrapped and that currencies should be free to fluctuate in value. That way, weak currencies would be penalized with instant if minor devaluations. Balance of payments problems would automatically disappear, along with the onerous controls and taxes imposed to try to solve them. Few policymakers accept such a radical proposal, but support is increasing for the related idea of permitting currencies to fluctuate within a "band" of 3% to 5% of their par value. Thus Friedman may not gain all of what he wants...
...said that he favored a thorough faculty reappraisal of the ROTC program "within the framework of flexibility available to each service." He said he doubted, however, that the Harvard faculty would want to engage in "a witch hunt" to search out all weak courses in the University...
...said to him with a weak grin, How are you doing, John? He said, I feel fine. Then he paused for a minute and asked, How are you doing, Doc? I was about to say in a reassuring psychological tone that I felt fine, but I could not, so I said, I feel lousy. John drew back his purple-pink lips, showed his green-yellow teeth in a sickly grin, and said, What's the matter, Doc? Why you feel lousy? I looked with my two microscopic lenses into his eyes. I could see every line, yellow spider webs...
...E.C.A.C. Christmas tournament in New York, Brown lost to Yale in the opening round and then tied a weak Dartmouth squad in the consolation game. It has also dropped its last two games, losing to Colorado College and R.P.I. by close margins...