Word: markets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admittedly, some women use the men in their lives as an excuse not to do what they really are too lazy to do anyway -use their brains. It must be laziness and not stupidity (as most men evidently assume) that keeps them out of the job market. The fact that about 95% of the working-age men in this country have jobs shows that stupidity is no obstacle to employment...
...This week the heads of the six nations of the European Economic Community hope to prove the poet wrong when they meet in the 13th century Hall of Knights in The Hague. The two-day summit meeting could prove of critical importance in determining the future of the Common Market, and indeed of all Europe. Since the Market was created twelve years ago, it has not merely lost momentum but has also shown signs of coming apart...
...museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where he found the giving useful, he bought when he found the value worth preserving, and he could afford to disregard the sureties of market taste. He did not feel compelled...
...This year the surplus will total less than $1 billion, mainly because imports have risen 50% over the past three years, twice as fast as exports. Much of the blame can be laid to U.S. inflation, but not all of it. Farm exports have fallen sharply, largely because Common Market countries have unloaded surplus grain, chickens and other produce abroad at subsidized prices...
...Generale Immobiliare (assets: $175 million), which has not only dotted postwar Italian cities with tower apartments but erected similar projects in Montreal, Mexico City and Washington, D.C., including the capital's most In address, Watergate. When word of the sale leaked out, jitters swept the Milan stock market; brokers feared that a liquidation of Vatican securities holdings might depress stock prices generally. Italian newspapers speculated that the Vatican was pulling its money out of Italy to avoid paying a dividend tax that has been a source of contention between the Holy See and the government...