Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely motivated by three basic desires-food, love and money-and of these, the least understood is money. Even Lord Keynes said that the agreement for the world's "gold-exchange" monetary system, framed 24 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H., sounded as if it had been written in Cherokee. But beneath the current confusion of talk about payments balances and gold flows, just about everybody realizes that something is wrong with the international system of money and gold. The time has come, if not for sweeping reform, at least for searching reappraisal of the apparatus through which major...
...professionals. Sensing that such a return may be imminent, some politicians have exploited the emotional letdown from the years when Nkrumah promised Ghana the leadership of all of Africa. They have charged Ankrah with turning the country into a provincial, beggar nation, made such an issue out of an agreement that gave Abbott Laboratories of Illinois control of the state pharmaceutical corporation that Abbott decided last month to leave Ghana...
...with Nasser-but only on the surface. After the disastrous June war against Israel, Feisal promised to send $140 million a year to help repair Egypt's ruined economy; Nasser, in turn, agreed to withdraw the troops that had been propping up his puppet regime in Yemen. The agreement, however, is only a temporary mask that covers but does not diminish the basic enmity between the two men. "Without question," says a confidant of the King, "Nasser is the No. 1 devil to Feisal...
...case, "to protect the network," Lucy Jarvis negotiated an agreement with Barnard's next patient, Philip Blaiberg, and his family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn...
...efforts to doctor the ailing U.S. merchant marine, the Government has often proved as ineffectual as the barnacle-crusted maritime industry itself. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd not long ago virtually threw up his hands over the prospect of winning general agreement on a plan to renovate the aging U.S. flag fleet, whose dwindling capacity has been strained by the pressure of supplying the Viet Nam war. After months of contentious hearings, the Federal Maritime Commission, however, has just approved a stride toward greater efficiency. By a 3-to-2 vote, the commission authorized the merger of three West Coast companies...