Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holder of the Keys. Although Jesus frequently encountered angels-such as the ones who ministered to him after the 40 days' fast in the desert-the Bible mentions only three by name. By common agreement of angelologists, these three-Michael, Gabriel and Raphael-rank at the very top of God's celestial hierarchy. Michael, whose heavenly hosts tumbled Satan and his evil legions into hell, is the holder of the keys to heaven. Gabriel presides over paradise and, according to none other than Mohammed, was the angel who at God's command dictated the Koran. Raphael...
Such an ambitious step has never before been attempted. The Rio agreement, in fact, is only a beginning; the accord must still be reduced to legal form and then ratified by national legislatures. Moreover, further agreement will be needed on when to put the plan into operation. Best guess: 1969 at the earliest...
After four years of bickering, bargaining and brain-racking compromise, 107 nations reached a historic agreement last week in Rio de Janeiro. They found a mutually satisfactory method for overhauling the free world's strained and out-of-date monetary system. Without dissent, finance ministers from the member countries of the powerful International Monetary Fund approved the cautiously controlled creation of what amounts to a new kind of international money-a combination of currency and credit that would supplement the gold, dollars and pounds that now bankroll world trade and investment...
Thus Japanese Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta echoed the sentiment of most of the 2,200 delegates, bankers and officials in Rio when he called last week's agreement "the greatest step forward since the creation of the IMF" 23 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H. It was also a considerable personal triumph for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had to overcome the fears of skeptical central bankers that the U.S. would use S.D.R. to cover up its chronic payments deficit...
Mather House is currently scheduled to open in Fall, 1969. Ford said the Committee on Houses did not really have to make its recommendations to the Corporation until then, but he added, "I think we ought to have some agreement before this year is over. It is a job for this year...