Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Local boards will continue to draft the oldest first in an eligible pool of men 19 to 26 instead of shifting -- as has been expected -- to men between...
President Johnson went along with many of the Commission's ideas, supporting particularly the lottery and the shift to the 19-year old pool. On student deferments, however, he committed himself only to ending graduate school deferments...
...B.I.S. gained stature chiefly after the mid-'50s as European currency controls ended. From the regular meetings in Basel sprang such innovations as currency swaps, by means of which central bankers again and again have defeated speculators against the British pound, and the European gold pool, which has kept the price of the yellow metal stable for seven years (and did so once again during the Middle East crisis). Though the International Monetary Fund boasts vastly greater resources, the Basel Club's ability to provide a wobbly national currency with almost instant credit is often more decisive...
...take exception to the statement that the "death of the minors means that the pool of trained talent for the majors has all but dried...
Present undergraduates will go into the "prime age pool with the 19-year olds upon graduation...