Word: creation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy was torn by inflation, black markets, and such a food shortage that hungry city dwellers trekked to the country in hordes to barter their clothes and furniture for farmers' grain and potatoes. Neither gold nor a cushion of foreign exchange backed the infant mark. Yet its creation proved to be the essential underpinning of the Wirtschaftswunder that transformed West Germany into Europe's most prosperous power. By last week, as West Germans celebrated the 20th birthday of their postwar currency, the once lowly Deutsche mark had risen to become one of the two most coveted moneys...
TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC LEFT, by Michael Harrington. The political evangelist who roused the conscience of the U.S. on behalf of the poor (The Other America) here turns to proposals for reshaping American political and economic life through the creation of a new party imbued with social concern. Some of his vision is overly visionary, but there can be no doubting the author's passionate concern...
...days after the Robert Kennedy assassination, Jerry Paris, who directed the gentle and funny Dick Van Dyke Show, but who also had acted in The Untouchables, took advertisements in the Hollywood trade papers announcing: "I will no longer lend my talents in any way to add to the creation of the climate for murder. I have looked into the mirror. I see myself and the face of our industry. I do not like what...
...longer-range threat to world monetary liquidity, the IMF's 107 member nations were in the process of ratifying, one by one, creation of a new kind of international money, called special drawing rights, to supplement dollars, pounds and gold. S.D.R.s, bookkeeping entries designed to expand the reserves of individual countries, should help bankroll world trade. But, warns Bank for International Settlements President Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, they "are not a panacea for the difficulties that must be dealt with...
...coming about in America today prompted by youth's impatience, but nonetheless implemented by mature men who have something going for them-life experience. But the tender balance can be destroyed by even a noisy minority, whose credo is destruction for kicks rather than maturity gained through the creation of a family and doing one's "thing" for the betterment of society as a whole...