Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allied juntas." Swedes in general oppose the war, but the manner of Palme's gesture blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious (red), and the American ambassador was summoned home for "consultations." No successor has yet been named. Later, Palme adopted a low silhouette; realizing that Erlander was contemplating quitting and that the top job was within reach, he cut back on his TV exposure, tidied up his once sloppy style of dress, even tamed his cowlick...
Shift to Realism. Moneymen seemed relieved that Germany would no longer try to keep the mark at the unrealistically low price that had allowed the country to pile up enormous trade surpluses to the detriment of the economies and currencies of other nations. As the mark rose, the French franc dipped, then climbed back at week's end. Traders saw new hope that the combination of the recent 12.5% French devaluation and an eventual German revaluation would add up to almost a 20% shift in the official values of the two currencies-making the difference in their formal exchange...
Largely to counter the charters, IATA members approved a new low-priced "bulk fare" for groups of 40 or more passengers, each of whom agrees to pay at least $100 for ground accommodations. The plan is scheduled to become effective on Nov. 1, even though some airline executives think that it does not go far enough to simplify and reduce fares...
...dictated prices. One notable example is uranium. Czechoslovakia had the world's first producing uranium mine, and it supplied the pitchblende from which Mme. Curie isolated radium. During the 1950s, Russia bought most of Czechoslovakia's uranium for the cost of production, which was set artificially low because the mines were manned largely by unpaid political prisoners and located on state-owned land...
...intellectuals who find her work too full of social and economic themes. "The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward," she says. "Intellectuals have forgotten, or else they never understood, how difficult it is to make one's way up from a low economic level, to assert one's will in a great crude way. It's so difficult. You have to go through it. You have to be poor...