Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassed over the continued dependence of Asia's No. 1 industrial power on U.S. defense hardware. Many of them look for a change in 1970, when the mutual-protection pact comes up for review. Polls show that nearly half the population is still undecided on whether the agreement should be continued; the tendency for now, however, is to put off thinking about an unpleasant choice...
...first proposed in 1935, after Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's flight to Moscow. It was included in a Soviet-U.S. cultural-exchange agreement in 1958. Then came a decade of talks, suspended whenever the cold war temperature dropped to chilly or freezing. Finally, this week, the first Moscow-New York commercial flight was set to take...
Although final agreement on Britain's new credit package will not be reached until September, the basics are clear. The $2 billion would be used only to finance sales of pounds by those sterling-area countries that are experiencing balance of payments deficits of their own, thus eliminating the need for Britain to continue dipping into its own reserves. Those countries free of deficits, meanwhile, will be asked to hold onto their sterling. In return, Britain will promise to compensate them for all losses incurred in the event of another devaluation of the pound...
...loan to improve tea production, Taiwan wants $5,000,000 for a fishing fleet, and Indonesia would like $150 million to increase food production. Malaysia has applied to ADB for a loan to build oil-palm mills, and two weeks ago the bank signed a technical-assistance agreement with the Philippines under which ADB will send five experts to see what can be done about the Philippine rice crop. Only 21% of the land, according to an ADB study, is now irrigable in wet seasons and a mere...
Shaw was branded a raving lunatic, and in fact his provisions were ruled invalid in law. An appeal from the court's decision elicited a compromise agreement from the three residuary legatees, and a public competition was announced. Of the 467 entries, four were judged worthy of sharing the prize money. The design finally adopted, however--an ingeniously logical and space-saving system of 48 characters--was largely that of Kingsley Read. And the bi-alphabetic edition of Androcles was duly published in 1962. Whether the Shaw Alphabet achieves widespread use remains to be seen...