Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guarantee World Bank bonds. At the same meeting, Anderson unwrapped a U.S. plan to set up an International Development Association (with the U.S. contributing one-third of the capital) to make loans that, unlike World Bank loans, would be repayable in the borrowing country's own currency, no matter how soft. At the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington in late September, Anderson pushed the plan, won over the World Bank's soft-loan-mistrusting board of governors...
...Hope. The cranberry farmers dismally predicted that Flemming's feverish warning had crippled the industry for years to come. They were convinced that no matter how many lots of berries might be cleared for the coming holidays, edgy housewives would still refuse to buy them...
...that sort of thing makes football," but insiders felt that he was less than pleased by the incident. Captain John Nichols was less reticent about his feelings, declaring, "Frankly I think it stinks." Mutterings about "good sportsmanship" echoed between Cambridge and New Haven for a few weeks before the matter slowly died...
...Commission will undoubtedly propose projects for bringing high school English teachers in closer contact with their subject matter, he said. The effectiveness of seminars, special summer sessions, and weekend conferences will be studied...
...been the beginning of the week, but perhaps things had changed with the Gregorian calendar... or even before.... And then, too, Dilworth hadn't been out of his room in a long time to talk to anyone. Anyway, in the last analysis, he decided, it was just a matter of attitude. Tossing his cashmere blanket to one side, he made up his mind to take a chance...