Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than Graceful. Credit for the change goes mostly to such improvements as the corneal lens, made of Plexiglas, which is lighter and simpler to fit than the old soleral variety, covers only the iris and the pupil rather than the whole eye. Researchers are adapting other materials, notably a hydrophilic plastic: invented by two Czech scientists, the new rubbery lens is so flexible it never irritates the eye, and is porous enough to be worn while asleep...
...Western Europe seems to share the problem. French labor and business are chafing under a strict economic-stabilization program designed to lower the growth rate from 7.5% to 4.5%-and prices and wages with it. By imposing a merciless credit hold-down, Italy braked industrial growth from 5% to 1.5% last year. Along with the other problems of its economy. Britain is alarmed by its quickened wage-price spiral. The cost of living has jumped 4.6% in the sharpest twelvemonth rise in a decade, and British housewives this month found that prices had risen for some 3,200 different grocery...
...inspired," "left wing dupes" interpretation has already been raised by a number of state legislators, and it is likely that the charge will continue to be aired, with increasing frequency. It might therefore be worth asking ourselves why we are willing to keep giving the Communists credit for so much. Since when is free speech a Communist idea, or the right to mount political and social action a Communist concept? I thought precisely the opposite
...items asked for: $210 million for technical cooperation, $50 million in contingency funds, $155 million for contributions to international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Development Association and the Inter-American Bank. The President also proposed a plan to stimulate private investment in emerging nations: a tax credit for U.S. companies equal to 30% of their investment in those countries. Congress turned that idea down last year, but the prospects for passage now are brighter...
...rising support for creating a new international money. More than a dozen separate plans, differing widely in details, have been suggested by such men as International Monetary Fund Chief Pierre-Paul Schweitzer and U.S. Economist Robert Triffin. Some of them would give the IMF power to create money and credit, somewhat as Lord Keynes suggested a generation ago. Others would create a pool of money from the world's dozen richest nations, to which each would contribute according to its wealth, thus sharing in both the risks and rewards of reserve-currency countries...