Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-drawn gun technically fulfills the requirements of frontier etiquette, but it's a false fulfillment--a fraud. And so, Altman is suggesting, are the conventions of the Western. Justice didn't triumph on the frontier, brutality and greed did, and that's the real story of the growth of America...
...experience at Harvard became a central part of the women's lives, some husbands began retaliating. Marguerite's husband accused her of not being a good wife, and she remembers he "couldn't understand why I didn't want to do housework." As the rate of personal growth accelerated for all of these women, old relationships became more and more untenable. Susanna told of being informed by one Radcliffe official of a "Harvard syndrome"--a condition that hits couples with one member at Harvard and one member outside, eventually destroying the link between them. These four women illustrate the syndrome...
Limits to Growth...
Many speakers thought some of the tension in international trade might fade in the future as the widely varying growth rates among the major countries begin to converge. There was not even much regret that the general direction of the convergence will probably be down, as U.S. growth slips, rather than up, as was once expected. The new managing director of the IMF, former French Treasury Chief Jacques de Larosiere, proclaimed that the world's major international economic ailments "are on the way to being cured." U.S. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was nearly as cheery. Despite a lingering public...
About the dollar, however, the mood of the meeting was bleak. Although some experts held that the convergence of growth rates and declining trade surpluses in the nations that have them would help calm currency fluctuations and boost the buck, others reiterated that global money markets are no longer behaving rationally enough to be quieted down easily. Otmar Emminger, president of the West German Bundesbank, confessed that he had "given up hope that the markets would react to logic." Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey found the entire world monetary system to be "in disarray...