Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicaraguans still have a chance to prove that they're better off without Anastasio Somoza. But it's my impression that taking things as a whole, the people of Iran were better off under their previous dictator than they are under their present dictator...
...conference in Belgrade, he immediately instructed his staff to draw up a list of options open to the Fed. The short-term goal would be to prevent a further dollar slide abroad, but long term the objective would be to puncture the inflation psychology of the nation as a whole. As many as 20 staffers were ultimately involved in the brain-storming sessions, and economists from the Fed's New York operations were shuttling in and out daily for consultations and advice...
Moreover, the definitions of money do not include a whole array of newfangled financing and banking techniques. These include money market mutual funds, which have grown from nothing seven years ago to more than $36 billion now. The funds put investor deposits into government and corporate securities that pay more than twice what is available in regular bank savings accounts; they also permit check writing against the investments, making the whole concept rather like super high-paying checking accounts. People are now putting money into these funds at the rate of $500 million a week...
Inevitably, there are gaps and errors in The Man Who Kept the Secrets; too many people have died, too many documents have been destroyed, too many decisions never made it to paper--and too many persons still have reason to prevent the whole truth from surfacing. But Powers has compiled an impressively documented and reasonably well-presented litany of power and its abuses; his book--a most thorough work but by no means the last word on the subject, will provoke, frighten and outrage even those already jaded by the sleaziness and corruption of Watergate. Richard Helms...
...attain great stature as an author. One imagines Roth secreting himself one night in I.B. Singer's bedroom closet all the while scribbling a short story about what he sees. In the morning he discovers in his lap a small masterpiece, part autobiography, part fancy; but it is the whole truth about the Jewish fiction writer...