Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia's hardest currencies. The men who administer the Thai economy, and indeed the whole cadre of Thai civil...
...surface, the strike seemed simply a matter of money. The seamen, who now earn about $56 for working 56 hours a week, want the same wage for a 40-hour week, plus overtime pay for the additional 16 hours. The raise would be far above the 3½% annual wage increase Wilson has laid down as the cornerstone of his policy of economic restraint...
...Bennett, 65, the ebullient premier of British Columbia, who has opened up his province with roads, bridges and railways. Bennett got into the ferry business six years ago, has since then built B.C. Ferries into the world's largest car-ferry system, with 23 ships, 19 terminals and annual revenues of $15 million. With business booming, Bennett intends to add another ship to the run. Alaskans, who estimate that at least half the passengers will continue on to their state, are already planning to put local Chamber of Commerce bureaus on 24-hour duty to help find accommodations...
...track coaches selected Chris Pardee, Tony Lynch, and Trey Burns for the team's annual Improvement Awards. Ron Wilson, Harvard's mainstay in the field events, copped the Sam Felton and Little Shotput Awards...
Minor, a political writer from Jackson, Miss., is the winner of the third annual Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. The Nieman Fellows selected him for his "sharply perceptive investigative reporting of political and racial affairs...