Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second problem-the one that caused last week's tremors-is the main, and perhaps mortal weakness of the monetary system. While nations that belong to the IMF are obliged to try to keep their currency-exchange rates steady, there is no stipulation that they keep their international payments in balance at the prevailing exchange rate. The result is all too frequent imbalances in international payments, which put new strains on the monetary system...
...commanders see the main Communist threat now aimed at III Corps, the region comprising the ten important provinces around Saigon. Earlier this month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main...
...mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence estimates that the Communists have only one regiment in or around the Demilitarized Zone and barely two in the two northernmost provinces of Quang Tri and Thua Thien, where 15 of their regiments roamed last February. Altogether, the Communists are believed to have...
...main thing is what they (the poor nations) can do," he stressed, "but we can help." American foreign aid is destructive, he said, because it is given in loans attached to trade agreements which siphon off the country's capital and lower the quality of its imports...
...main reason that the HUC is powerless is that it is so conscientious. That is, it feels it must follow the ground rules by which student-administration social life games are played. These rules are established by the COH and the administration. They state the obvious: unless you agree with us, we won't let you do anything...