Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europeans in the audience to advise him on how to do his new job. For about a half hour, Kissinger, a symbol of American power, sat by the podium and diligently took notes while a German, a Frenchman and an Englishman tried to define the problems of U.S. foreign policy and offer some solution...
...Problems, Image and Impact in the World." The discussion allotted one day to the internal problems of the U.S., one day to the character of the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell's phrase for a coming age of plenty and leisure), one day to the problems of U.S. foreign policy, and one day to the cultural future of the world. For obvious reasons, much of the scheduled exchange fell back upon generalizations which were assumed to begin with...
...marks before the price of the mark went up. And, of course, French financiers and speculators, fearful of the return of the economic chaos that had characterized the Fourth Republic, were the largest buyers. Because lack of confidence in a currency, like a run on a bank or American foreign policy, moves inexorably toward confirming its premises, they seemed likely to be proven correct...
...Restrict the powers of some speculators, including the huge multinational corporations, most of which are U.S.-controlled. Such firms hold enormous cash reserves in foreign currencies. Whenever a crisis threatens, treasurers rush to shift their reserves from "weak" currencies (currently French francs and British pounds) into "strong" currencies (currently German marks, Swiss francs and others) and thus bring on or aggravate a crisis...