Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Popular Forces fled from the countryside at the onset of Tet, and have been slow to return. The U.S. has only two brigades of the Ninth Infantry in the Delta. Their energies have been fully taxed by the patrols required to keep open Route Four, over which food supplies flow to Saigon...
...primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would ultimately lead to a drying up of reserves and re strictions on trade and capital flow. The U.S. (then holding some 57% of the world's monetary gold) prevailed with its view that creation of the IMF - a dar ing innovation for its day - would solve the problem...
...physically impossible for time to actually flow backwards; you can't relive Gettysburg. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to prove that the actions of the fundamental particles of nature would be different if they ran backwards...
...Tier Price. Finally, the pressure grew so great that the U.S. refused to continue to feed gold to satisfy speculators' greed. In a telephoned message to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, the U.S. asked Britain to close the London gold market and shut off the flow from the Gold Pool. Prime Minister Harold Wilson hurried to Buckingham Palace for a midnight meeting with Queen Elizabeth, who declared a bank holiday in foreign-exchange trading. That shut off the Gold Pool's dealing, and money markets from Singapore to Lusaka followed suit. The Paris market alone stayed...
...pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right to travel between West Berlin and West Germany. Their commanders in West Berlin also reminded the Russians that the Allies hold them, and not the East Germans, responsible for the free flow of travel to Berlin...