But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.
Martin Feldstein
BeginningValueAprilDollarTrade
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
Graham Nelson
EndAprilThemInformCurses
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
BuildingJudgeAprilNeighborsRight
April Fool is widely considered one of the top yachts ever built by Feadship, the famed Dutch shipyard. Launched in 2006, April Fool has a huge master stateroom, a Jacuzzi on the fourth-level sun deck, a sauna, and sprawling outdoor dining lounge. The yacht first came onto the market in 2011 with a price of $69.5 million.
Kayla Tausche
FoolSunPriceAprilFirstTop
April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot
AprilMonth
On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
Dan Shechtman
AloneAprilRoomMicroscopePhase
Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.
Michael Dirda
TimeReadingStoryDeepYearApril
The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and June.
Julia Mancuso
TimeBestI CanAprilOutsideMay
April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.
Anne Wojcicki
DayYouKnowDNAAprilIdea
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
NatureSpringFlowersSweetApril
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain
DayRememberYearAprilFirstDays
In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political opposition and so forth. Brand-new as of April 1933.
Erik Larson
PolicePoliticalBecomeAprilSecret
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
Alan Alda
TeacherFoolDeadAprilOldYears
The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.
Adrian McKinty
EndAprilDenverBrutalOctober
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.
P. J. O'Rourke
AccountingTaxJailAprilPayKeep
The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
Barton Gellman
SecurityAprilNuclear WeaponsWell
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
Tony Blair
WarAprilDaysFinalGulf WarFull
For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
Juan Cole
RisePartyCountryMarchAprilUp
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
August Wilson
DayAprilFirstTypewriterPoet
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell
DayAprilTaxesPayPoliticiansBig
We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
Lesley Gore
TimeSchoolDrivingSaturdayApril
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
David Kay
WarSupportYearPresidentApril
Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology.
Will Arnett
CharacterTurtleAprilMythologyWho
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
Adrienne Mayor
LightRiverLongSometimesApril
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