Word: cheerful
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...presidential assurances that the surcharge was not permanent. Nixon compared Canadian dependence on U.S. capital to American dependence on European investment before World War I. The U.S., said Nixon, "would do nothing that would make Canada feel it was a colony of America." It was not much to cheer about, but Trudeau made the most of it. "I've changed my mind about the U.S. attitude," he declared. With an eye to his Canadian audience, he said that Nixon had "recognized the entire freedom of Canada...
Prince of Demons. Outside the stock market, uncertainty may not be the prince of demons that it is on Wall Street, but neither is it a force for optimism. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists showed somewhat less cheer at a meeting last week than they had at their last previous gathering in late September. Economists who had predicted an unprecedented $100 billion rise in national production next year stood by their forecasts, but confessed that they felt less sure. Walter Heller and Robert Triffin noted that industrial production is still 6% below its peak in 1969, that...
...done an efficient, unpretentious job of moving the actors on that stage. His is an "amateur" production in the best sense: everyone in it seems to be having a good time, and the warmth comes across. At times, in fact, the melodies (not the lyrics) and the general good cheer of the enterprise overcome all else...
...when he announced that the U.S. would stop selling gold to redeem foreign-held dollars. The "Nixon Shock" has already moved moneymen into discussions that would have sounded like sheer fantasy a few months ago. American officials who once proclaimed the majesty of the dollar now cheer declines in its price on newly freed money markets, because they hold the potential for helping the U.S. balance of payments. Meanwhile, Europeans are reluctantly breaking loose from their mystical attachment to gold and discussing ways to reduce its role in a new system...
...Italian community plans to charter a bus to the game in the Yale Bowl. Informed that some Harvard-Yale contests are played on Friday, the mayor said that the contingent may go down early. "We want to do the thing up right," he saad. "We'll stay overnight and cheer against every Yale team. They never should have done that to us and Columbus...