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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 8, 1977
Britain Cuts Lending Rate |
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The Bank of England yesterday cut its basic lending rate for the 11th time since it was raised to a record 15 per cent last October in a bid to halt a run on the pound.The cut of one-quarter of a percentage point took the rate - the bell-weather for all lending in this country - down to 9 1/4 per cent. Last week, the bank slashed the rate by a full precentage point. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 18, 1977
1900-1909 |
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NOW LOOK! That damned cowboy is President of the United States."That's how Mark Hanna, the conservative Republican power-broker from Ohio, was said to have greeted the word that President William McKinley was dead, eight days after being shot be a deranged young anarchist in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901. Teddy Roosevelt, the young, patrician, Harvard-educated, buffalo-shooting, bird-watching, Rough-Riding former New York governor and writer of history...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 16, 1977
Ali Beats Promoters To $12-Million Punch |
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"Attention, attention," shouted Muhammad Ali yesterday in New York, whence he'd come to ballyhoo his Feb. 15 title defense against tyro Leon Spinks in Las Vegas. "I have an important announcement."I have just signed a contract to fight (Ken) Norton for $12 million right after I get rid of Spinks."Twelve million dollars is outrageous," Ali went on. "Two million is a lot of money, but 12 -...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 5, 1977
Sadat Calls for a Panel To Plan Geneva Talks |
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat registered new concern yesterday that plans for Arab-Israeli peace talks in Geneva are bogging down in an impasse.Sadat, in Cairo, renewed his call for a "working committee" to lay the ground work for a basis on which a Geneva conference could reconvene. The committee, he said, should quickly contact all the parties who would attend the conference: United States. Soviet Union, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Leganon, and the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 15, 1977
Dollar Plunges Against Yen, Most Currencies |
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The Japanese yen, which has risen about 14 per cent against the U.S. dollar this year, broke through an historic landmark today to set a new post-World War II record high.The yen opened on the foreign exchange market at 253 to the dollar, bursting through the old post-war high of 253.20 set in 1973 and raising a new possibility of direct government intervention.The immediate causes were a renewed speculative surge against teh dollar and the reported discovery of a large oil field of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 21, 1977
The Single-Sculler - Alone But Not Lonely on the River |
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THE MAN emerged from the dark haze beneath Key Bridge shortly after 5.30 a.m. Dressed impeccably in a three-piece suit, he parked his 10-speed bicycle, unlocked the door to the crusty brick building and disappeared between the racks of slender vessels inside.In 10 minutes, clad in shorts, tee-shirt and sneakers, the man slids his boat into the water and rowed through the mist, down the listless and silent Potomac.Eric Meyers, 29, has started his day in this fashion for two years....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 24, 1977
Oratorical Rockets, Highwire Wit and the Orotund Glory that Was (and Still Could Be) . . . |
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"If you have some kind of trademark, like unruly hair, people get to recognize you."Everett McKinlsy Dirksen JANUARY 18, 1977. CIRCLE the date. The setting is the chamber of the United States Senate, a lackluster theater-in-the-round during recent years; but something special is about to happen. The new kid in the Democratic bloc has risen to address the chair.With the merest flick of his hand across an unruly forelock, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has been...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 23, 1977
Argentina's military government froze [WORD ILLEG |
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Argentina's military government froze [WORD ILLEGIBLE] were in the bank accounts.[WORD ILLEGIBLE] its garrison, the Eriteran Liberation Front said in Cario. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 16, 1977
Church Groups Using Shareholdings in Social Change Fight |
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Protestant and Roman Catholic church groups are now using part of their financial resources, invested in American corporations, as new weapons to battle for social changes around the world.The groups, armed with their stock certificates, are planning to attend stockholders' meetings of at least 58 major corporations across the country this spring and argue in behalf of resolutions affecting a wide range of issues.The issues include the promotion and sale of infant formula...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 6, 1977
Lockheed Emerges Stronger |
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While the Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s payoff revelation detonated a spectacular string of political explosions in Japan, the Netherlands, Italy and several other foreign countries over the past year, the company itself appears not only to have emerged financially stronger than it has been for quite some time.Write-offs and losses on the L-1011 TriStar jumbo jet program continued to affect the company's earnings significantly and will for many years to come.But in...
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