Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product," West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard proposed that his government review its system of foreign credits and "untie" them so that in the future underdeveloped countries would be free to use German credits for the purchase of non-German products. The U.S. could only welcome the offer, while noting wryly that burgeoning West Germany could now contemplate a variety of economic liberalism that the U.S. itself had felt obliged to restrict...
...caid. So let's get together." Abbas' aides denied that he had made the statement, but few doubted that the interview had taken place. And Paris was plainly getting the signal; in the National Assembly, Premier Michel Debre emphasized that the French offer of cease-fire talks still stood, added that rebel leaders would be guaranteed safe conduct home if discussions collapsed...
When he returned, Edel found that interest in James had increased considerably. His Depression scholarship was rewarded in the form of publishers' contracts and an offer to write a James biography. During this period, he taught at Princeton, Harvard Summer School, Indiana, and the University of Hawaii. He received a permanent appointment at N.Y.U...
...organized, nationwide protest against the provision, noting that, when the Subcommittee last summer held hearings on the Kennedy-Clark bill, only six college presidents--all from the East coast--appeared to testify. "It would be very helpful," he said, "for college presidents from all over the country to offer to testify before the Subcommittee in person...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...