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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 14, 1977
Britain Cuts Rate |
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The Bank of England reduced its minimum lending rate yesterday by 1/4-point to 8 per cent.The rate is normally pegged to the average rate of discount on Treasury bills at the weekly Treasury bill sale. However, the Bank of England has the option of either not cutting the rate or reducing it by less than the amount indicated by the market-related formula. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - March 9, 1977
Bolivia Flexes Economic Muscle Behind Enforced Stability |
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An American banker here, asked if he thought Bolivia's military government would keep its promise to call elections in 1980, replied "I hope to God not."For the first time since independence, he continued, Bolivia has stability and a favorable business climate it never achieved while political parties were operating.Businessmen are happy in Bolivia, there is no question about it. President Hugo Banzer Suarez, a tough army general who took power in a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 27, 1977
Rep. Mann Had Hill Aides Help Firm He Backed |
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Rep. James R. Mann (D-S.C.) has used his congressional office staff in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a failing Greenville, S.C., mail-order coin leadership in which Mann was a principal financial backer.The president of the coin business Mann helped start with a $38,000 loan, Ben Gause of U.S. Coin Co., was found guilty of mail fraud recently for failing to fill nearly $250,000 in customer orders.As favors to Gause and his several closely related coin companies, Mann and his staff...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 18, 1977
'Young Joe,' TV-Exec Style |
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R.F. IS A BUSY man. He's putting the finishing touches on "Conversations With Me - Life in a TV Executive's Office." All these people parade in with all these great ideas - they say "You better sit down, R.F." - but R.F. knows what will work on television.R.F.'s office overlooks a palm tree and a Taco-Bell.Ah, to have been there on the afternoon that whoever-it-might-have-been came in with the idea for...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 16, 1977
DEVALUATION SEEN |
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The Bank Of Portugal opened a forwards currency market yesterday that envisioned 6.4 per cent devaluation of the escudo over the next six months.The dollar buying rate, fixed at 40.416 escudos to the dollar, will rise to 43.02 escudos in the next six months, the bank sais. It fixed the one-month dollar buying rate at 40.906 escudos and the three-month rate at 41.694 escudos. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 10, 1977
Senate Confirmation Process: Half Rubber, Half Stamp |
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When Robert Bloom decided in January not to be what he later called "a skunk at a garden party" by criticizing Bert Lance's nomination as budget director, he was not alone.Bloom, then acting comptroller of the currency, was merely following a long tradition established by the Senate itself - that a President's nominees are virtually always approved, that advise and consent really means consent, that the confirmation process is half rubber and...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 23, 1977
Diggers Unearth the Past As Kiev Savors Summer |
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The Soviet Union Summer is ideal for digging, and as the hot sun bakes the Ukrainian plains, ripening the promising wheat harvest and bringing sunbathers to the banks of the Dnieper River, teams of diligent young archeological students and their professors are fanning out from here to probe ancient burial sites and piece together from the artifacts they find the rich history of this classic invasion route between East and West.For centuries before Christ, traders and tribes from the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 21, 1977
Troubled streets: A walking tour of the civic center site |
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Between New York Avenue and H Street and 9th and 11th Streets, the blocks where the convention center would be built are a jumble of parking lots, cheap apartments, storefront churches, rubble-stream dirt lots, vacant buildings, gasuine stations, carry outs, liquor stores, rescue missions, courier services, an Elk lodge, palm readers and busy stores and small business attracted by low overhead.There are according to the city, 127 properties owned by 67 owners. There are 88 households, made...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Lockheed Report Not Final Word |
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Pacifc Southwest Airlines, a San Diego-based intrastate airline in Califronia, is the major subsidiary of a holding company also engaged in providing engine maintenance and services and in training pilots for other airlines.In the early 1970s, PSA was one of many airlines pinpointed by officials of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. as potential customers for a new, wide-bodied commercial jet called the L-1011 or TriStar.Lockheed was moving from one crisis to another at the time, and PSA helped...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 13, 1977
Charlie the Hermit: One Man's Role Model |
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A lady asked me who my male role models were, and without taking a new breath I launched into my standard rap about how all the world is NOT a stage, and I am NOT concerned with playing roles or projecting images, and we would NOT be so obsessed with seeming instead of being, and the whole aria.By the time she got me quieted down, I was ready to think about it: Well, who were the people who shaped my life in what the great humorist of our time, Stan Freberg, calls The Early Years?My...
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