Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleventh-hour plea to save his foreign aid authorization. "It is madness to so jeopardize our own security and the orderly progression of the world." But House members had al ready unsheathed their sharpest knives and, in a callously contrived show of economy, hacked the aid authorization to bare bones. The modest $2.9 billion Administration request, smallest in the aid program's 21-year history, was cut by nearly $ 1 billion before being passed by a 228-to-184 vote...
...Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club, at which some of the guests are in evening clothes; in reality, substitute a few cans of beer in a bare, functional officers' mess. In the movie, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese walk into the camp's defenses like so many head of cattle; in reality, they usually hit the way good infantrymen are taught to attack, using every inch of terrain for cover...
Such confidence seemed deserved. After nothing but disappointing news for months, Britain's latest trade figures show that devaluation and Wilson's austerity measures-a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes-have finally started to work. During June, the government announced last week, the country's exports continued their slow but steady increase. More encouraging, imports showed their biggest monthly decline since devaluation, indicating that consumer spending, which had been fueled by fear of higher prices, has finally started to ease. As a result, the country's trade deficit for June...
Lying on the grass, bare chest upwards, legs spread, he bellowed to a pretty on the third floor of Weld, "Wanna go to a party...
Standing next to the bare chest, his friend. Pipes in, "You don't have to be prepared for things." Then, he adds, "I go to Harvard. Does that turn you on?" he asks Weld's window...