Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story when it is first reported. You get the answer back as to what's happening while it's important. The public scene is not set up to give equal prominence to the long-term underlying, less spectacular factors that really need to be kept to the fore...
...have multiplied that Rome's diplomats meddle too much in the internal affairs of the church in the countries where they are stationed. Extremely liberal Catholic clergy in The Netherlands, for example, have protested that Giuseppe Beltrami, who was internuncio there until he was recently named a cardinal, "kept the wires to Rome hot with reports of heresy in Holland"-not always without justification...
...growth promised to produce enough cash to meet almost any demand on the federal treasury, Germany built up an ever more costly welfare system, propped up its inefficient agriculture and high-cost coal mines with vast subsidies. That spending spree, matched by consumers and fueled by galloping wage increases, kept prices moving steeply upward. When the alarmed Bundesbank stepped in with sharply higher interest rates, bank credit became so scarce and expensive that industrial expansion fell sharply, and some cautious manufacturers began shortening their work week. The ensuing downturn helped to topple Ludwig Erhard's government last year...
...krone (down 6.9%) the least. The purchasing power of the U.S. dollar sank 2.8% last year, but its performance during the 1956-66 decade was better: it eroded by an average of only 1.8% a year, the lowest rate among major industrial powers. In little Guatemala, sound management has kept the quetzal from depreciating in the past ten years. A sampling of inflation's global grip...
...fire by rubbing a steel cord across a log and then pouring gunpowder on it. After months of experimenting, they discovered how to distill pure salt from sea water, then used the salt to preserve the meat of cows and wild pigs that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept...