Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa, he has been unable to devise a policy which strikes the necessary balance between support for European allies and encouragement of local independence...
...dollar-starved Bolivia, the free rate of exchange has slid to 6,800 bolivianos to the dollar, and local price inflation, though high, has not kept up. Result: anyone paid in dollars can buy beef filets for 11? a lb., rice for 2? a lb., gasoline for 5? a gal., cooking oil 4? a qt. A maid's salary runs from $1.50 to $2.50 a month; an average taxi ride costs 5? -no tip expected...
...more than 600. The peso's comeback, plus last year's inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept step, and only the country's famed gem stones are real bargains. In Peru, too, local prices have mostly caught up with the 1949 devaluation, but $60 to $80 a month will still rent a five-room apartment in a good Lima suburb...
...ballyhoo begins: the buildup in the back country, the tank artists and local strongmen, the charm where it works and the arm when they ask for it, the planted puffs in the big metropolitan dailies, the careful suckering of suspicious reporters, the old rah-rah for the worthy causes. And then all at once the first big fight, and a piece of good luck that money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with...
...crew would have set a cup record this afternoon, and would be considered a strong favorite to win the Yale race on June 16. The crew rowed a handsome race covering the mile and three-quarter course over Lake Carnegie in 8:46.8, over two seconds faster than the local cup record made by the 1954 Crimson eight...