Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their confrontation outside the prison gates, Mary accuses Elizabeth of hiding her sins behind "the false show of a virtuous-seeming face." Mary Stuart's sins--its slow pace and weak male leads--are right out in the open, but they fail to obscure the queenly virtue which illuminates the show...
...said to be suffering from anemia and eye hemorrhaging) been briefing embassy staffers on the situation. Rumors that the waves can cause leukemia, sterility in males or birth defects are circulating around the embassy. But morale remains good, nobody has yet requested a transfer, and some employees even manage weak jokes about the affair ("You're looking radiant today, dear"). "No one's mad at Stoessel," explains one diplomat in Moscow. "The resentment is directed against top management in Washington for not leveling with...
Crucial Test. Even as the weak grow weaker, the strong currencies become yet stronger (see chart). The value of the Swiss franc, the world's solidest currency, has increased 5% since last September, while the West German mark has risen 3%. The dollar, which had been suffering only two years ago, now has won new respect abroad as Europeans become increasingly impressed with the vigor of the U.S. economic recovery...
Below the Snake. Measured against the pound or lira, the French franc looks strong. Measured against the deutsche mark, it seems weak-mostly because prices are rising more than 31½ times as fast in France (an annual rate of 9.6%) as in Germany. France is a member of the "snake," a group of eight European countries that have pledged to keep currency-exchange rates within a 4.5% range of fluctuation; the franc is trading right at the bottom of that range. Some French industrialists would welcome a devaluation as a means of making French products cheaper abroad, and some...
...Harvard ski team slushed to a commendable finish in the Can-Ams at rain-soaked Owl's Head, Quebec, last weekend, while its Radcliffe counterparts suffered several mishaps and had a weak finish in the Canadian meet, according to coach Peter Tolnai. Exact results will not be known until later this week when the Canadians publish them...