Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot demands nothing of audiences except that they remember the definition of a tontine, a sort of lethal lottery: the families of 20 English youngsters each invest ?1,000 in a fund, and some 80 or 90 years later, the last survivor takes all. Two brothers, played with tireless bravura by John Mills and Ralph Richardson, are the champions of longevity, and their efforts to outlive each other lead to a hilarious family reunion in which Mills tries to do away with his sibling by poison, stabbing, strangling and flying crockery...
...four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated with a B average in history. He earned pocket money by working as a parking-lot attendant...
...said, should begin as soon as possible and involve poor nations as well as rich. By last week's vote, the Ten agreed not only to continue seeking some kind of reform but also to broaden deliberations by including the 20-member executive board of the International Monetary Fund. Half the board is drawn from Group of Ten nations, but the other members represent African, Arab, Asian and Latin American countries, which will now be able to insert poor-nation needs and notions into the debate and perhaps break the longtime deadlock...
...dubbed the "cru" (for composite reserve unit), which would take its place along with the dollar and the pound in the reserves of the world's central banks. Belgium and Switzerland opt instead for merely increasing the borrowing rights that 103 nations already have with the International Monetary Fund. Other nations, including the U.S., would agree to a combination of the two plans...
...Museum must raise $150,000 more from private sources to meet the conditions of the Ford grant. Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and director of the Museum, hopes to complete the fund drive within, two years...