Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions are endless, but they are questions that a society as ingenious as that of the U.S. could answer, given the will to improve on the present disgrace of campaign financing...
McGovern spent the major part of his speech, though, defending his Vietnam peace proposal. In answer to Administration charges that his plan called for surrender, McGovern said that present Nixon policies were surrendering our prisoners of war to endless captivity in North Vietnam, surrendering $250 million of tax money a week, and surrendering our decency, our ideals, and even our soul as a nation by bombing millions of helpless people and napalming little children...
...Special Drawing Rights, the so-called S.D.R.s or "paper gold" issued by the IMF. The values of all currencies, including the dollar, would bob up and down frequently by means of small devaluations and revaluations. Countries that ran persistent balance of payments surpluses, as well as those that suffered endless deficits, would be subject to international pressure to get back into equilibrium...
Like every other Communist nation, the People's Republic of China has a practically endless shopping list of U.S. products that it would like to buy to help in its economic development. Ever since President Nixon's February visit unlocked the door for increased trade, the big question has been: What would Peking buy with its limited shopping funds? Last week U.S. businessmen got their first answer: a little food and a lot of jet planes...
...detective follows her on his motor scooter from double-feature horror films to the dolphin pond in Windsor Park, he becomes infatuated. He is something of a pixy himself, a regular Zorba the Dick. He consumes huge quantities of yogurt, munches on endless macaroons, and makes a lot of funny faces. Now it is the wife who is unaccountably enchanted...