Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that GATT. Failure of the U.N. conference to produce a quick cure for trade deficits only strengthened the 62-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the single permanent machinery for lowering barriers and expanding trade. GATT carries the hopes of industrial nations for freer trade, but is by no means ignoring less developed ones. In the continuing "Kennedy Round" of negotiations, GATT ministers aim for 50% across-the-board tariff cuts that would be extended to underdeveloped countries on a nonreciprocal basis...
Typhoid is no longer the dreaded, deadly plague of old, now that antibiotics can usually cure it. But while the inquiry went on, Aberdeen remained a beleaguered city...
Infection in hospitals runs in a vicious circle. Many a patient enters because of infection, and the doctors must try not only to cure him but to keep his germs from other patients who are particularly susceptible because their resistance is low. Achieving the necessary germ-free atmosphere, though, is far easier said than done...
...intended to be his own Secretary of State. The lesson came when Hull went to the much-vaunted World Economic Conference in London in 1933 with the hope of increasing international trade by stabilizing the world's wildly fluctuating exchange rates. Roosevelt was experimenting with inflation as a cure for the U.S. Depression and did not want to peg the dollar. He torpedoed the conference (and Hull) with a disdainful note saying the U.S. would not cooperate...
...accomplished by relays of devotees chanting sutras round the clock in a prospective recruit's home and literally wearing him down. In other cases, members burned a family's Shinto altar, or prevented a doctor from treating a sick devotee on grounds that faith alone would cure him. Because of public protest, Soka Gakkai eased off on such tactics, but even today it stresses obedience, and members must vote for the sect's political candidates as a religious duty...