Word: argentina
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...Before World War II, a pengo had been worth 200. Germany between World Wars I and II suffered 4 trillion percent inflation, and Germans pushing wheelbarrows of money often valued the wheelbarrow more highly than all the currency inside'. Currently the top inflation rates prevail in Israel, Argentina and Brazil...
...president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States. In 1978 he headed a special team that investigated human rights violations in Nicaragua and issued a blistering attack on the Somoza regime. Another report is due soon on human rights violations in Argentina...
...Chicago's gilt-edged North Shore. At 15, Dad packed his only son off to a client's foundry in a small Canadian town for a summer's work to learn blue-collar life. After that there were summer jobs in Switzerland, Germany and Argentina, engineering and business studies, varsity football and tennis at Cornell. In his early 20s, Chuck Knight headed the European operations of Lester B. Knight & Associates, Inc.: in his early 30s, he took charge of the whole company. Then, startlingly, he revolted against Dad's grand plan...
...individual meditation--"quiet time" in Urbana lingo the participant hustles through several days of intensive bible study, speeches, workshops, slide shows and prayer groups, all centered on the basics of missionary work. Billy Graham, the well-known television evangelist, headlined the speakers line-up at Urbana. Famous missionaries from Argentina to Kenya joined Graham on the pulpit, exhorting the participants to consider church work as a career. "The whole thing can really blow you mind," Rozzell said solemly...
...came to taking direct action in support of the U.S. embargo, however, many U.S. allies proved skittish. Two of the other major grain exporters?Canada and Australia?agreed not to increase their sales to the Soviets, but they would not cancel any existing contracts. The other big exporter, Argentina, refused to cooperate at all with Washington. The West Europeans are not selling grain to the Soviets, but refused to curb their sales of high technology. Said French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet: "We have no intention of modifying our commercial relations with the U.S.S.R." Added a German Foreign Ministry...