Word: convertibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's "guidelines" are designed to improve the deficit in our balance of payments. Because Americans now spend abroad more than foreigners spend here, there is a net outflow of dollars from the United States, Central banks in other countries have the right to convert their surplus dollars to gold. And the resulting gold drain jeopardizes the stability of U.S. currency...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...
There are presently about 110 "economy doubles"--rooms originally intended to be singles which are now used as doubles--in the dormitories. Mrs. Bunting hopes to convert these back to singles and possibly to convert some of the full-sized doubles to singles when Fourth House is built...
Questions of doctrine and ideology matter less to Jaguaribe than a "general understanding," a personal compatibility. He would rather make a friend than convert a capitalist. He is as amiable and unassuming as he is undogmatic. He invites his students to "pose questions;" he encourages criticism of his own views...
...governed by institutions capable of preserving peace. We honor Pope John XXIII on this occasion not because he demonstrated that perfect peace can be achieved in a short time. We honor him because he raised our hopes and exalted our vision. It is the duty of our generation to convert this vision of peace into reality...