Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start down the road to statism it leads to socialism." Answer: Reagan made the third statement last week, commenting on the 1960 letter; the first two are from the letter itself. Nixon evidently was impressed by Reagan's letter. At the top he scrawled a note to a campaign aide: "Use him [Reagan] as speaker whenever possible. He used to be a liberal...
...AMOURS HAS found only one strategy to counter the good vibrations favoring his opponent--outflank him on the right. His stump speeches have emphasized votes on which he, and not Humphrey, voted with Reagan. Need we even note that the word "Mondale" has temporarily slipped D'Amours' memory? Yes, folks, these are bad times for the Democrats...
...seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days later (the tax deduction-minded might want to consult a calendar about here, cynics that they be) another check arrived from the same cement baron, bearing the same amount. Suddenly the building fund had feet...
...years the face of Shotoku, the prince of sagely virtue who drafted Japan's first constitution more than a dozen centuries ago, has calmly but sternly graced Japanese bank notes. But the prince is being deposed. On Nov. 1, he will be replaced on 10,000 yen notes (about $40) by a more modern figure, Yukichi Fukuzawa, an important figure in the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century. On 5,000 yen bills, where Shotoku had also ruled, goes Inazo Nitobe, an official in the old League of Nations. The new face on a 1 ,000 yen note...
...current bank notes were around for so long they had become an easy target for counterfeiters. The new ones will be tougher to fake. They each have a spray of colors, 15 for the 10,000 yen note alone, and larger watermarks. For the blind, they will bear their value in braille. One problem with the new bills is that vending machines, where the Japanese buy everything from railroad tickets to whisky, will have to be converted to accept the new currency...