The war chests of reserves could be used to boost domestic financial development.
If the lockout becomes a war of attrition based purely on financial reserves, players would obviously lose since only they need this money to survive.
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But he reserves his greatest enthusiasm for touring World War I battlefields, with a group of close friends who call themselves "Farage's Foragers".
Bowman accuses the Army of shortchanging him to help pay for the war, Miller, who's still in the Reserves, measures his words more carefully.
At one point in a show down among the English and French central bankers over French recovery from the war, the French central banker threatened to redeem its reserves in pound sterling back into gold, as the English went back on the gold standard a few years earlier.
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He joined the Army after attending the University of Texas and still held a major's commission in the reserves when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, sparking the Persian Gulf war.
Goldwater was a World War II Army Air Corps flyer and a retired U.S. Air Force Reserves general.
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But during the War legislation and executive orders compelled private U.S. banks to transfer their gold coin reserves to the Fed in exchange for Federal Reserve Notes convertible into gold.
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But after the war ended, world demand for oil surged while America gradually exhausted most of its easily-tapped domestic reserves.
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With the largest oil reserves in Africa, it produced 1.6 million barrels of oil a day before the war and accounted for 95% of the country's export earnings.
The Gulf war achieved most of Mr Bush's announced goals: Kuwait was liberated, aggression was punished, oil reserves were kept out of hostile hands.
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