Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes for a sensible international monetary reform to take some pressure off the dollar are dead-which suits De Gaulle just fine. Worst of all, if the U.S. encounters an economic dip next year, the Government money managers may be unable to fight it by lowering taxes or loosening credit-because such measures would only deepen the dollar drain...
Forever hungry, India needs fertilizer to inspire the food production necessary for its burgeoning population. The answer of course lies in chemical fertilizers. Since independence, the Indian government has built six chemical-fertilizer plants; to these is due much of the credit for the fact that per capita food production has actually gone up 15% in the last 15 years. This is not nearly enough, but under Pandit Nehru, India refused to allow foreign companies to "exploit" the country's potential market for fertilizer...
...degree and nature of such discrimination is difficult to measure, since many Negroes who would like to borrow have low incomes--median Negro income in New York City is a little more than half that of median white income--and cannot hope to measure up to the established credit standards for long-term, low-cost loans. Hudgins firmly believes that discrimination on all loaning for large amounts or long periods is wide-spread, although it is true that it has decreased somewhat since pre-World War II days, when "The Mortgage Conference," a group of white banks, refused to grant...
...Malcolm X must go the credit for the incisive arguments and the colorful and conversational style which (although the Autobiography was written in its final form by Haley) bears a remarkable resemblance to his statements and speeches in Malcolm X Speaks. Malcolm was a public speaker, not a writer, and it is a tribute to Haley that he preserved this quality in the book. Haley must also be given credit for giving Malcolm's life story a degree of objectivity and coherence it might otherwise have lacked...
...secret compartment. But Strindberg doesn't care that his plot device was awkwardly introduced. Once he has introduced it, it becomes the quickest means to a desired end, and he can forget about it, concentrating on its dramatic effects on the characters. It is to Mr. Babe's credit that he realizes this and dispenses with the plot devices quickly and efficiently, underplaying the melodrama in the script...