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After the Nixon shock there was the Plaza Accord of 1985 (when representatives of the U.S., Japanese, British, French and German goverments â€" meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York â€" agreed to depreciate the dollar by intervening in currency ... But Written in Stone is really a book about two kinds of fossils. Switek doesn't just consider bodies entombed in rock; he also digs up fossil ideas. Through quotations and historical anecdotes, Switek unearths the intermediate ...