Word: greatly
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Anderson got strong backing from Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...great majority of the world's economists strongly oppose both the gold standard and a price hike. Says a top U.S. Treasury officer: "The full gold standard is oldfashioned, impracticable, a discipline enforced with the lash. The world has moved on without it." In place of that rigid discipline, nations have built up flexible disciplines better suited to control the ups and downs of the complex modern world, such as the International Monetary Fund. Opponents of return to the standard of a quarter of a century ago insist that the U.S. is already as near to a gold standard...
...Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...
...time is 1767, and great political and social changes are on the way. but the Di Rondo family is as impervious to change as only true eccentrics can be. When young Cosimo, an alarmingly imaginative twelve-year-old, has a run-in with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century...
...told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature, Kieran's thesis always has been: "Let men build and pave to their hearts' content, there will always be many kinds and untold numbers of wild things in the great city...