Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janeiro by these same nations. The Stockholm Conference was and still is necessary to formalize the scheme by specifying the circumstances under which a nation may use its SDR's. It must also fix some sort of limit, probably adjusted to a nation's volume of trade and size of GNP, to which the nation may draw, and decide the manner in which the proposal must be ratified by IMF members...
...year, especially since the departure of permanent conductor James Yannatos, it is now on the way toward a total recovery. Appearing with a string section pared down to the absolute minimum, the orchestra seems to have reached a solid foundation on which to begin reconstruction. Next year, if full size can be reached without diluting present competence, the orchestra should be prepared to indulge all but the wildest programming whims...
...questions remain to be answered by today's primary: the size of vice president Hubert H. Humphrey's vote and the magnitude of Kennedy's victory over Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy...
...great deal of theatrical breathing and a series of almost grotesque attempts at beatific smiles at moments whose exquisiteness he seemed particularly desirous of pointing out to the audience. The trouble with these antics is threefold: they are aurally and visually distracting, especially in a room the size of the Kirkland JCR; they are didactic and insulting to an audience generally capable of appreciating Bach's subtleties on its own; and, most important, they are bound to distract a performing musician from his real business, which is to channel his expressiveness into the sounds he is producing. If instead...
...hours of meetings about tactical matters, politics, and reports from Strike Central. I begin to long for a benevolent dictator. It is announced that we are spending as much money on cigarettes as food. I wonder as I look about me whether Lenin was as concerned with the breast size of his revolutionary cohorts as I am. It is now daylight savings time; under all the clocks are signs saying "it's later than you think...