Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Dillon and President Kennedy. That should be enough to get him the job, which traditionally goes to an American, since the U.S. holds 30% of the bank's stock. Woods is eager to take it on. Says his longtime friend, U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Arthur Dean: "Woodsie has climbed all the Mt. Everests there are to climb on Wall Street, and he has a yen for public service. He feels that we have tremendous problems with underdeveloped countries, and people with ability cannot remain comfortably on the outside if we are going to solve them...
There is a rush on inside novels about big-time politics in Washington, and each author tries to outdo the last in dreaming up fantastic political skulduggery that has never occurred and never will. The latest to climb on the badwagon are the writing teams of Burdick-Wheeler and Knebel-Bailey. Their target is the Pentagon. According to their spicy exposés, it is a den of some of the most hideous monsters this side of Cyclops' cave...
...Climb Up to Hell, by Jack Olsen. The north face of Switzerland's Eiger (Ogre) Mountain is perhaps the most suicidal climb in the Alps, and the author's account of four ill-equipped men who tried to climb it in 1957 is thoughtful and exciting...
...unsteady is the economy that a run on the territory's sole bank was averted only when the U.N. announced that it would guarantee the currency. Over the past five years, essential oil exports have dropped by two-thirds. As Dutch businessmen keep pulling out, unemployment figures climb...
...upward spiral. With export income and foreign investment at a standstill, governments are forced to borrow or print money to support domestic industries and put their growing populations to work. But the increased currency in circulation is not matched by an equivalent increase in goods for sale. Thus prices climb higher, and the cost of living rises far faster than the world average. In the past five years, the cost of living jumped 212% in Argentina, 158% in Bolivia. 146% in Brazil, 111% in Chile, 133% in Uruguay...