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...significant amount were thrown onto the market, the price would be knocked down hard, perhaps to $100 an ounce or so. As the dollar gained in value against gold, it might also rise against foreign currencies as well. But central banks are reluctant to part with the one reserve asset they hold that is increasing dramatically in worth...
...Catholic priests, computer programmers and systems analysts are among those expected to be in demand in the next decade. The BLS notes that while a bachelor's degree ensures a good chance at a job, a graduate degree in any of these fields would be an especially marketable asset...
Kraft also has more of a taste and talent for political detail work than the Georgians, in cluding Carter, whose disdain for party regulars was an asset during the campaign but has been a weakness in office. "Some things were falling between the cracks," acknowledges Jordan, who recommended that Kraft's $56,000-a-year fence-mending post be created...
...judgment the largest asset of America is the very one that is so easily squandered," Valenti boomed. "It is the enterprising entrepreneur, the risk taker, the competitive antagonist, the builder of plants and factories, the creator of new enterprises and the expander of old ones, the people who make better mousetraps, cheaper and faster. If our economy is not strong, we will have neither the zest nor the vitality for other adventures, however useful and attractive they...
...against us whenever they like, can bad-mouth the President whenever they like, and still ask him to help them by attending fund raisers and campaigning for them." These aides insist that despite Carter's low ratings in the polls, the President's support will prove an asset to most Democrats seeking reelection. Argued one: "The voters continue to give him high marks personally. He's a good man, and he's a good campaigner...