Word: continentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though some Europeans had predicted that the price might double on the free market, nothing of the kind occurred. Trading was comparatively light, and the price of gold fell from $38 per oz. at the opening to $36.70, then edged up to $37 at week's end. On the...
In capital terms, much of Europe is an underdeveloped area. The Continent lacks many of the broad-based financial institutions that, in the U.S., have transformed "people's capitalism" from a flag-waving slogan into a reality that works. The bourses exist in an aroma of gossip, cater primarily...
In a decade of fiery anticolonialism, nearly every European colonial power has felt the sting of Black Africa's invective. One unlikely exception is General Francisco Franco's Spain, which still presides over a small African colonial empire of 120,000 sq. mi. and 1,400,000 people...
Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient stream bed high in the frigid Transantarctic Mountains. Investigating rock strata to learn more about the Antarctic ice sheet, they uncovered a small fossilized bone fragment with continent...
Early last week, the Soviet Union, obviously seeking to bolster its image on the Dark Continent, stridently denounced the International Olympic Committee and more specifically its president, multi-millionaire Avery Brundage. Letting South Africa participate, the Soviet's Olympic Committee said, would be "an impermissible act which contradicts the basic...