Word: supped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Bank (now headed by Rob ert Strange McNamara), which makes loans to underdeveloped countries. Bretton Woods' key decision was to stick with gold as the primary international monetary asset. In vain, Britain's John Maynard Keynes argued for creation of a new international money to sup plant gold. He warned that reliance on "the barbarous metal" would ultimately lead to a drying up of reserves and re strictions on trade and capital flow. The U.S. (then holding some 57% of the world's monetary gold) prevailed with its view that creation...
...show you that they are not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston-Providence Area. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.* BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE NAME OCCUPATION Easy Diff. BEGINNING Easy Diff. ENDING George Adams, sales sup. 244 175 756 928 Laura Anderson, student 292 290 1824 950 Ruth Atran, student 413 290 1536 1682 Jeneth Antonucci, cashier 269 232 1250 1930 John Angier, inv. sec. 240 230 1158 1015 Walter Butler,accountant 362 349 912 830 Rodney Bond, student 358 265 1700 1250 Nancy Brenner, housewife...
...I.C.O. is moving even more directly against the heart of coffee's problem: oversupply. Brazil, the big gest producer, has taken the lead. It grows enough coffee each year to sup ply two-thirds of the world's needs, has enough surplus in storage to supply every coffee drinker for more than a year. Though present quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming...
When the Sun appeared for the first time last week, its makeup included whole paragraphs of boldface type on many pages, along with a generous sup ply of pictures and color comics. Almost all the national and international news was left to the wire services, and there was the usual liberal-conservative mix of columnists: Howard K. Smith and Robert Spivak, Barry Goldwater and Doris Fleeson. The staffers concentrated on covering such local matters as supermarket boycotts and the pants-suit rage...
...insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts to the U.S. and for harboring liberal ideas...