Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, as the demand for highly-educated employees increases, ambitious women seem to have an ideal situation: they are congratulated if they become wives and mothers and no more. If they have careers they get gold stars. It seems as if they can hardly lose...
...rushed to buy marks, knocking the franc, the dollar and the pound to the lower limits set by the International Monetary Fund. The prospects of another franc devaluation-the eighth since World War II-caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...
...little soup pot on their own little fire in their own little corner." The French took a modest pride in De Gaulle's nuclear force de frappe, which presumably gave the nation a voice among the world powers. It even pleased the often xenophobic French that their gold reserves were sufficient to threaten the American dollar. At least the French man in the street relished De Gaulle's blocking of Britain's plaintive attempts to enter the Common Market...
...during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general strike, the government had to accept sizable wage increases; all of this had caused panic among the middle classes, and francs were speedily converted to gold or other currencies-most often West German marks. The fabled gold reserves were depleted in defending the franc...
...fact has not been lost on makers of children's films. Hustling for small change, they dress shoddy actors in seedy costumes, bloat fairy tales to 1½-hour proportions and ship the results to Saturday matinees. In the throng, however, there are a few legitimate producers whose gold is all but lost in the straw. The best of them is Robert Radnitz, 44, whose movies-A Dog of Flanders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, And Now Miguel-are the sleepers of the children's film industry. All have won prizes, all are marked by a happy lack...