Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer-range threat to world monetary liquidity, the IMF's 107 member nations were in the process of ratifying, one by one, creation of a new kind of international money, called special drawing rights, to supplement dollars, pounds and gold. S.D.R.s, bookkeeping entries designed to expand the reserves of individual countries, should help bankroll world trade. But, warns Bank for International Settlements President Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, they "are not a panacea for the difficulties that must be dealt with...
...Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating of a V.C., Reporter Janssen protests, "There's such a thing as due process." "Out here," sneers Wayne, "due process is a bullet." Built on the primitive lines of a standard western, Berets even has the South Vietnamese talking like movie Sioux: "We build many camps, clobber many...
...Coercion. That was too much for Knowland, who ordered a front-page editorial titled "Our Community Challenged." Every citizen, it said, should "realize that this is an attempt to use threats and brute force to demand compliance with the views of an articulate and aggressive minority. This was a process used by both the Nazis and the Communists in destroying free institutions abroad." Knowland then urged the "average citizen" (meaning white) to patronize the boycotted market. "This is where we stand," concluded the editorial. "Where do you stand...
...Gamma Process...
...whole, his tales seem to be a process of working through to the point, of justifying the rounded resolutions that he pats into place at the end. In the long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as stiff and arid as their marriage was. Then she finds that her real grief consists of a series of discoveries about herself, notably the fact that she harbors a lesbian passion. Finally she draws back from contemplation of "last things"-death, ultimate commitments-and finds a practical way to go on living...