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Pressure from the Dollar. For all the caution, there is, as French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann commented, "a strong incentive built into the plan to move forward." Indeed so. The Europeans were propelled into unexpectedly early accord by the profligacy of the U.S. For most of two decades. European nations have been accumulating dollars at a rising rate as a result of U.S. balance of payments deficits. Common Market countries complain that the flow of dollars affects interest rates, finances the takeover of European firms by U.S. companies and promotes inflation on the Continent, since central banks have to issue...
...corporation, a financial institution with an endowment of $1.3 billion, the largest employer in Cambridge, and an influential institution throughout Boston and America. As students, we are a part of this institution and therefore have a responsibility to work to change its operations so that they are in accord with some standard of social responsibility...
...Geneva Accord between the great powers which declared Laos to be neutral flew in the face of this political reality. It set up the International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Canadian, and Indian representatives, under a mandate to regulate Laotian neutrality, to police foreign intervention...
...never charged with obstructing a Harvard official. Rather the catch-all charge of "actively participating in an obstructive demonstration" was brought against him. This was in accord with one of the CRR's ground-rules for dealing with the massive picket lines last May; it declared that everyone who could be identified as present on the day of an obstructive demonstration was guilty of "actively participating" in the obstruction even though the obstruction may, in fact, have taken place later or earlier. (One student was punished for briefly standing on the picket line as he talked to a friend...
...table in an 18th century Baroque palace. Each man in turn signed a document. Then the trio toasted the occasion in Moët & Chandon champagne-as well they might. Credit Lyonnais of France, Commerzbank of Germany and Banco di Roma of Italy had just joined in a unique accord that one executive described as having "all the advantages of a merger without its inconveniences." The signing brought into being a financial powerhouse with $18 billion in deposits, 3,000 branches and 60,000 employees, making it the largest banking operation in Europe and the fourth largest in the world...