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...rapidly growing importance as lender of last resort to countries about to go on the rocks -and demander of unpopular economic steps that nations must take to qualify for their loans. That is a role that was never planned for the Fund when it was created at the Bretton Woods, N.H., international monetary conference in 1944 and would have seemed unlikely even four years...
...Radcliffe ski team capped its regular Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference (WISC) season this weekend with a third place finish in a meet at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire...
...chairs, 2 T-bars, Pomalift 1,725 39 Sugarbush Valley Warren Gondola, 4 chairs, T-bar 2,400 40 Suicide Six Woodstock 2 Pomalifts 600 NEW HAMPSHIRE 41 Attitash Bartlett 3 chairs, T-bar 1,525 42 Black Mountain Jackson Chair, 2 T-bars, J-bar 1,200 43 Bretton Woods Fabian 2 chairs, T-bar 1,200 44 Cannon Mountain Franconia Tramway, 2 chairs, 4 T-bars 2,135 45 Cranmore North Conway 2 Skimobiles, 3 chairs, Pomalift 1,500 46 Crotched Mountain Francestown Chair, 2 T-bars, Ponylift 700 47 Dartmouth Skiway Lyme Chair, Pomalift...
...great a thing should make a greater crack." In fact, the devaluation took place in relative calm; most inside the U.S. and abroad hailed it as a realistic first step toward a long overdue reorganization of a world monetary system that had not been overhauled since the Bretton Woods conference...
...important, all the major proposals for basic reform of the monetary system call for nations to surrender an unprecedented degree of money sovereignty to the IMF, which would have to be turned into a true world central bank. Keynes wanted to do that when the IMF was created at Bretton Woods, but nationalists shot down his idea, and their objections are still strong...