Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went from bad to worse. On paper, per capita income is $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere; the real figure may be as low as $15. Now, to alleviate at least a little of the misery, the dollars are flowing again: $2,360,000 in Inter-American Development Bank funds for a drinking-water project, frequent liberty visits by U.S. Navy vessels. Ambassador Benson E. L. Timmons III, 48, mindful that a dozen embassy officials have been declared personae non gratae in the past 6½ years, is restricting his activities merely to "what is proper...
...George David Woods, president of the World Bank...
...rhesus monkey's skull, retains only small bits of bone to serve as supports, and suspends the brain in an apparatus of tubes and rods. Its blood vessels are hitched to a small heart-lung machine, and fresh blood is supplied from a monkey blood bank. Delicate needles stuck in its surface al low an electroencephalograph to measure the electrical activity by which all brains do their work...
...delegates made several soft compromises. By supporting proposals to reconvene the trade meeting every three years and to set up a small secretariat at Geneva, they moved toward creating what someday could become a new trading organization for the world. They also agreed to "recommend" that the World Bank grant loans to countries that suffer from commodity-price declines, and that the industrial nations set a foreign aid goal of 1% of their "national income," that is, the sum of their personal income and corporate profits...
Lady, in short, is just a routine withdrawal from Hollywood's bottomless blood bank, but it does give Olivia a grand chance to go ape. She gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...