Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revelle, who was vacationing in California when he was contacted for comment, found the encylical letter an immediate stumbling block to the efforts of those men who are attempting to disseminate birth control information in predominately poor Catholic countries, the countries of South America, the nations of Central America, and the Phillipines. It will make the efforts of these men "very much harder," said Revelle and therefore in these non-industrialized countries where the poor would be less burdened by a smaller family, the Pope's pronouncement does not serve the needs of humanity. This encylical will especially hurt...
...Wilson had some information that made that statement sound merely overoptimistic rather than like sheer nonsense. Britain's trade deficit dropped 42% in June, the best performance in any month since devaluation, and Europe's central bankers showed their confidence in the pound by giving Britain $2 billion in new stand-by credits to defend it. A Daily Mail poll showed that the massive Tory lead of 23.5% in April had been cut to 13.5% this month. Then, last week, Labor scored its second parliamentary by-election victory in five weeks. The win at Caerphilly, Wales, was narrow...
...clearer on the mono copies. At the very end of the Reprise the group in the background starts singing the chorus to an old Rock and Roll song called "Farmer John." You can find out who sang it in the Yellow record catalogue at College Music Shop in Central Square...
...pounds to keep the currency from dropping too far below its $2.40 official price, Britain has seen its reserves of gold and foreign currencies shrink to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount that would be necessary to re deem all the pounds held by individuals and central banks in sterling-area countries...
...troubled country to come away from Basel with cause for optimism. Another was France, whose reserves of gold and dollars have so far dropped from $6.8 billion to $5 billion in its crisis. To help France battle speculative attacks against the franc, the Bank for International Settle ments and central banks of five countries (the U.S., Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and West Germany) agreed to provide Paris with short-term credits totaling $1.3 billion. At the same time, the Basel conferees sought to dampen gold speculation by devising a scheme by which South Africa is expected to resume its sales...