Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bartering is the world's oldest method of doing business; Esau, one of its early practitioners, swapped his birthright for a mess of pottage. Though the easy flow of money and credit has long since ruled out any need for widespread swapping, the surprising fact is that bartering survives in today's sophisticated international trade. It is even undergoing something of a revival as more nations sign trade agreements to exchange yearly quotas of goods and commodities with one another; more than 490 such agreements are now in force. About 20 companies, mostly in Switzerland, Holland and Britain...
...Martin explained the board's action, it was intended to "remove boulders" that were causing disturbing "eddies" in the flow of money...
...typewriters keep up their nervous tattoo, the telephones go on ringing, the tides of paper flow in and out. Yet the White House-and indeed all of Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences...
...which has reached the point where U.S. officers refer to it as a "sub-invasion." Regular troops from Hanoi have been infiltrating at a probable rate of 2,500 monthly since mid-1965, and intelligence sources in Saigon expect the Ho Chi Minh government soon to increase the flow to 4,500 a month. There are now 30,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South. With the Viet Cong, the "hard hats" from the North form a tough, dedicated fighting force of 250,000. Though American and South Vietnamese troops are outkilling the enemy almost 3 to 1, some guerrilla...
...major crops), Britain also banned imports of asbestos (a $30 million export item last year), copper, lithium, chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith was scared, he wasn't showing it: with rich, like-minded South Africa backing him up, he was counting on shifting Rhodesia's trade...