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...lack of enough gold and currency reserves around the world to finance the growth of global trade. The report foresaw a U.S. payments surplus by 1968, but even that would be no full solution; a surplus will lead to deficits for U.S. trading partners, which will then react by restricting their imports from the U.S. Needed: a new, broader-based monetary system that will not penalize the U.S. for the aid it pours abroad...
Although the experimenters were worried that the children simply would not react, when the first subject, a six-year-old girl, changed her mind over 110 times, "we sent her home confirmed that our operation was a success...
...react in just one way to Al Capp's remarks that a prep school is a big gang as vicious as any in New York but without the guts: I'd like to punch Capp in his big leaking mouth. My research into the gangs of New York has failed to turn up a single character who has been willing to address himself to an enemy without a gun, a knife or help-hardly the symbols of guts...
...with urbanized Bantus now 65% literate and developing a middle class of civil servants and teachers, preferences are becoming more sophisticated. Bantus refuse to read or speak Afrikaans, react quickest to English-language advertising. British habits are widely copied: 80% of all hats sold in South Africa are bought by Bantus, who consider a hat the hallmark of English gentility, and three out of four Bantu homes prefer tea to coffee...
...sulfonic-acid group (-SO-OH)-the chemical that is responsible for the cleansing action-onto each long-chain hydrocarbon molecule. This is no easy trick to perform in a practical industrial process, but after years of work Esso chemists finally developed a novel way of making the reluctant chemicals react by jolting them with gamma rays...