Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good War Record." West Germans also enjoy two other competitive advantages. One is the aggressive trade policies of their own government. To help foster West German exports, the Federal Republic sponsors an insurance organization called Hermes, which offers exporters a guarantee against default by their customers. Thanks to Hermes (which has so far committed $600 million to underwriting Mideastern deals alone), West German businessmen can often offer credit to customers whom other Western businessmen must pass up as bad risks. Sometimes the Bonn government steps in directly to help. West Germany is about to give the Greek government $150 million...
...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
...would be equally unwise to recruit students chiefly on the basis of taking part in something "experimental." The "experimental" has, for many, the implications that discipline is unnecessary, that the arts offer a way of life which can elude normal obligations and limitations, that the educational community should be set up in opposition to the society as a whole. Such utopian and Bohemian aims are not part of the New College proposal...
Stowe has excellent conditions with three inches of new powder, while Big Bromley has an inch of powder with good to excellent conditions. Sugarbush Valley, Smugglers Notch, and Franconia (Mittersill) also offer premium skiing conditions. At North Conway, Mt. Sunapee, and Wildcat the outlook ranges from good to excellent...
Penn should offer less resistance than the Tigers. The Quakers threaten in only four events--the dive, with league champion Fred Fox, the fly and 220-yard freestyle, with Fred Norcross, and the backstroke...