Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tight Corset. As Robert Ball, TIME'S European economic correspondent, reports: "The root of last fall's crisis, the fundamental imbalance between the robust West German mark and the weak French franc, has not been lastingly removed. The tight corset of exchange controls is all that is holding the franc up. Though the controls have impeded any further outflow of francs from France, Paris has failed to lure back the bulk of hot money that it had previously lost. In Europe, the skepticism about France's chances of avoiding devaluation is widespread...
...Investigations: Catch-68" [Feb. 7]: while loftily castigating the Navy's alleged lack of vision, you barely mention, and then hastily dismiss the real root cause of these latter-day military tragedies-the "flash query syndrome...
...views on paper, his very own. He does not need any more of a justification for his writing than that. His feeling of responsibility to the entire country makes him less of a writer. It makes him less effective and less honest, and it is at the root of the guilt that is ruining journalism in this country...
...multiple of the square root of minus...
...elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct advantage. This would seem to indicate that the tradition of the Adamses, Elihu Root and Henry Stimson is perhaps even greater today...