Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detached and liberal. We thought that the Russians had a very low standard of living, but, alas, they did not realize it. They had made great strides in half a century, yes. But at what cost? That is the way we talked then. Dough and I wanted to be foreign service officers. Harvard would be good for that, we thought...
Germany's surprising decision against raising the value of the mark virtually guarantees that the country's economic surge will continue, probably at a perilously fast pace. The output of German factories so far this year has leaped 17%. Last week Bonn announced that its foreign-trade surplus in April rose to $325 million, compared with $275 million in April 1968. A deluge of foreign orders 41% higher than a year ago is pushing Germany's industrial machine toward the limits of capacity. "We cannot go much further," says Werner Meyer, director of Blaupunkt, the Bosch radio...
...difference is even greater between German and U.S. products, it is hardly surprising that German exports to the U.S. climbed 38% last year. As the world's most successful exporters, the Germans in 1968 sold $25 billion worth of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, plastics and other products to foreign nations. That was far more than any other country except the U.S. With an economy larger than that of all Western Europe, the U.S. had 1968 exports of $33.4 billion...
...latest bulge in Germany's foreign trade started three years ago, when a credit squeeze followed by a recession shrank domestic demand. In response, German businessmen turned to aggressive selling abroad. The economy soon rebounded, but recession-cut German prices never caught up with those in other countries. For industrial products, Germany's principal exports, many prices not only failed to rise but actually fell. Retail prices of electric ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, watches and TV sets declined slightly in the past year. The 2½% increase in the consumer price index over the twelve months through last...
...find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly on the topical-Che Guevara, police, R.F.K., student...