Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devalued the pound in 1949 (from $4.03 to $2.80), 23 nations followed by devaluing their own currencies. This time, several countries-Ireland, Denmark, and Israel-almost immediately followed Britain's move by devaluing, and others are sure to follow this week, particularly within the British Commonwealth. The Common Market countries immediately decided not to follow Britain's lead, and the U.S. lost no time in announcing that it has no intention of devaluing the dollar. In a White House statement, President Johnson said that he could "reaffirm unequivocally the commitment of the U.S. to buy and sell gold...
Many new industries, mostly concerned with electronics, computers and light machinery, have moved into sites along Route 128 on the outskirts of Boston. But the Boston school system has not been sensitive to this expansion of the job market. "While companies along Route 128 are crying out for skilled machinists and engineers," Gopen says, "Boston schools are still teaching woodworking and cabinet-making. Mel King, now head of Congress of Racial Equality, ran for the school board a few years ago on a platform of connecting Boston vocational schools with Route 128. But he was defeated...
Julian is innocent, perhaps. Perhaps also impotent. He has no head for money, constantly loses it, quite as constantly is given more by his sisters. It may be that truly good men remain so only as long as they refuse to do homage to the Market; it may be that taking unhealthy gifts is itself an end to innocence. Whatever he is, Julian is capable of honor and, in a popular sense defined by the play, love...
...benefits reaped by Luxembourg's banking community. Local banks often participate in underwriting consortia, manage bond issues and act as paying agents. Says Professor Jean Blondeel, president of Kredietbank Luxembourgeoise, which has trebled its staff since the boom got under way: "We are the Switzerland of the Common Market...
...Midwest Stock Exchange; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Founder and boss of his own highly successful securities firm, Day took over Chicago's floundering stock exchange in 1946, within a few years had combined with three other Midwestern stock exchanges to create the nation's biggest market outside of Wall Street...