Word: weaknessness
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Canada's investments in U.S. energy companies have been a major cause of weakness in the Canadian dollar because Canadian investors buying American stocks must first sell their own currency for American money. Finance Minister MacEachen last week again asked Canadian banks to stop shoveling out the financing loans...
Early hopes that the Pope would make a rapid and complete recovery from the assassination attempt had faded when he was forced to return to the hospital last June. Though Gemelli doctors reported that John Paul was gaining in his battle with cytomegalovirus, an infection similar to mononucleosis, rumors persisted...
Says John Pfister, a real estate analyst at the Chicago Title and Trust Co.: "Luxury housing moves with the Dow Jones averages and has held up well. So has the lower end of the market. But the middle ranges show real weakness." Says one Manhattan broker: "The higher-priced apartments...
And Reagan has done far more than call names. For the first time in recent memory, an American chief executive has enlisted all the powers of the government to break a strike. There are troops in the control towers; federal attorneys are falling over themselves in their obscene haste to...
It was left for Leo Tolstoy to underscore most aptly the mundane reason for mankind's taste in viewing and reading. Wrote he: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Niceness, in other words, however admired in real life, is inherently repetitious...