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With five wins to its credit and only a 10-2 shalacking at the hands of Exeter on the debit side, the freshman lacrosse team has done pretty well for itself this spring...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: LACROSSE | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

...Thou shalt when deep in debit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: The Ten Commandments | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...swinging a $362 million grain sale to hard-pressed Red China. By devaluating the Canadian dollar last June, the Tory government has helped spur exports 4.8% and shave Canada's deficit-of-payment imbalance. Unemployment has dropped to 318,000 (4.9% of the labor force). But on the debit side, Diefenbaker has failed to show how his government intends to meet the new challenge of world trade-particularly that posed by Britain's expected entry into the European Common Market. The Tories stubbornly oppose Britain's entry; Liberal Pearson wants Canada to join in a counterbalancing Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Election Ho | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...human intellect as pulling huge stones to build the Pyramids was for human muscles. Some day, currency and coins will be only for the rural areas. If you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb before an electronic scanner will identify you, and the network will debit your account and credit the seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Goodbye to Money | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Picking the Team | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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