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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 6, 1977
Bank Rate Cut to 7.5% |
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The Bank of England yesterday cut its minimum lending rate by 1/2-point to 7 1/2 per cent, its lowest level since June 1973.The move was the first change in the rate in 12 weeks, reflecting the growing confidence in Britain's economic future. It followed the disclosure earlier this week that Britain's gold and foreign currency reserves are at their highest-ever levels.Friday's cut is the 16th in a row since the minimum lending rate, the cornerstone...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 28, 1977
Mr. Lance's Loans |
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IT DID NOT TAKE long for the Senate Government Affairs Committee to wind up tis investigation into the business affairs to Budget Director Bert Lance. The committee readily accepted his explanations and all its members. Republican as well as Democratic, seemed to concur with his view that he has done nothing improper. The senators may well be right. But we think they would have been a little wiser to wait for a few more facts to come in.Of the three major matters in which Mr.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 25, 1977
Japan Bank Defends Yen |
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The governor of the Bank of Japan responding to U.S. critics, said Japan is not keeping the value of the yen artificially low.Teiichiro Morinaga was commenting on a statement reportedly made by Lawrence Krause, a member of the Brookings Institution and a personal adviser to President Carter, that Japanese authorities should allow the yen to find its own level more freely.Sources close to the Japanese Central Bank quoted Krause as saying that as a nation in a strong balance of payments... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 23, 1977
Israel Bars Partitioning West Bank Or Returning It to Jordan, Dayan Says |
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Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said yesterday that the new Israeli government would seek a peace with Arab states that does not involve partitioning the occupied West Bank of handing it back to Jordan.Speaking to Foreign Ministry personnel, Dayan said the major problem facing Israel is the Arab demand for a total evacuation of the West Bank, which was captured by Israel in 1967."This government wants to achieve peace with the Arabs not on the basis of the territorial... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 16, 1977
How Singapore Chokes Off The Traffic |
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Precisely at 7:30 each morning, warning lights flick on across signs above the 22 roads leading into the central business district of this fabled world trading city. They read: "Restricted Zone - in Operation."From that moment until 10:15 a.m., any automobile entering downtown Singapore must have a pre-purchased $1.60-a-day sticker on its windshield. Corporate cars have to pay twice as much. Not even diplomats or high government officials escatpe the net. The only... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 15, 1977
Hill Steps Into Human Rights Debate |
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The Senate and a House committee dipped into the complex foreign policy question of human rights yesterday, with some members in both sides calling for action more forceful than President Carter has proposed.The Senate, debating a bill authorizing $5.2 billion in new subscriptions to world lending agencies, beat back by seven votes, 50 to 43,a Carter-opposed amendment instruting the U.S. representative to each multinational lending agency to vote automatically against any loan to a nation... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 1, 1977
Paris' Machine-Age Temple for the Arts |
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For Andre Malraux, museums were meant to lift objects out of their specific identity and time and enclose them in semi-eternal rooms and galleries "between the absolute world of God and the ephemeral world of man," where he portrait of the Duke ofOlivares becomes a painting by Velasquez.The Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture lumbered to life here last night in a defiant challenge both to the dictum of the late French minister of culture and the... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 1, 1977
Paris' Machine-Age Temple for the Arts |
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For Andre Malraux, museums were meant to lift objects out of their specific identity and time and enclose them in semi-eternal rooms and galleries "between the absolute world of God and the ephemeral world of man," where the portrait of the Duke of Olivares becomes a painting by Velasquez.The Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture lumbered to life here last night in a defiant challenge both to the dictum of the late French minister of culture and the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 30, 1977
Carter Remarks Spark Confusion, 'Disappoint' Sadat |
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The Arab world reacted with surprise and dismay yesterday to initial interpretation given to President Carter's remarks on the Middle East. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt voiced disappointment by saying, "He is making my job very difficult."Senior American officials here were distressed by various news accounts portraying Carter's remarks about the Palestinian question during a televised conversation the night before as a sweeping endorsement...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 27, 1977
THIS IS BURLESQUE |
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Washington world of declining returns for burlesque houses and his luck is still holding. As Harry MacArthur once wrote of him, "If Sam Shanker fell through the ice in the river in mid-winter, he would come up with a hot stove under one arm and a mermaid in the other."In the days gone by when Jimmy Lake - the unofficial mayor of 9th Street - operated the Gayety, Theater here, burlesque was a legitimate form of entertainment. There was chorus girls and comedians, and...
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