Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though some compute the value of their hoards at less than market prices, any rise in those prices does lift the amount of a nation's reserves. Says Economist Robert Triffin, an international monetary expert: "Central banks now hold on their books assets that are ten times as valuable...
The sisters are familiar with such temporal matters, having used positions as stockholders to press for policy changes at J.P. Stevens, Rockwell International and McDonnell Douglas. But this is the first time that the nuns have ever filed a suit.
No way will the Soviets oblige. They are notoriously loath to let U.S. Senators beat them with sticks, no matter what the carrots. In 1974 the Kremlin made clear that it would rather live without most-favored-nation status than submit to "Scoop" Jackson's condition of increased emigration...
Mao delicately placed the issue of Taiwan on a subsidiary level, choosing to treat it as a relatively minor internal Chinese dispute. What concerned him was the international context ?that is, the Soviet Union. To a long disquisition by Nixon on the question of which of the nuclear superpowers...
In office he always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he...