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...better homes, and in some cases second homes. Housing barriers are gradually coming down, and whites are not always fleeing when blacks arrive. Insurance Agent Tom Allen, who bought a house in a largely white suburb of Seattle in 1971, recalls that "15 years ago, you couldn't beg, borrow or steal a place outside the central area even if you had the money. Today, if your money is green enough, you can live anywhere...
...last year, and the money will come out of the financial hide of the rest of the world. Underdeveloped countries that do not happen to be oil producers, such as India, Kenya and Bangladesh, could run up a combined trade deficit of $20 billion or more-if they can beg or borrow the money to pay for oil. The industrialized nations of the non-Communist world, which enjoyed a combined trade surplus of $12 billion last year, likely will swing this year to a deficit of around $40 billion...
Meanwhile, Van Delft is in touch with at least one other group in Cambridge, and possibly more--he won't say exactly whom he has talked to. "Let me beg off on this," he said last month. "It's premature right...
Violated Spirit. In other Common Market capitals, the reaction to the Roman surprise was one of irritation tempered by caution. A number of European statesmen complained privately that the restriction represented a beg-gar-thy-neighbor attempt by the Italians to solve their own problems at other countries' expense. Some even questioned the legality of the move, suggesting that Italy had violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the EEC charter. The Common Market has been built on the idea of a free exchange of goods...
...addition, several high party officials have recently come under attack for the first time. Hsieh Chen-hua, military commander of Shansi province, where Peach Mountain was first produced, was instructed by wall posters to "hang his head" and "beg the pardon" of the local population...