Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these developments, Washington feels, will impel the rich nations in the so-called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
...report proposed that the School develop short-term, non-degree institutes dealing with social and such professional issues as cultural deprivation, desegregation, and the role of counseling to supplement regular instruction. The recommendation was adopted unanimously without change...
There are important arguments for releasing the HPC reports. The rest of the College should be able to examine these reports and criticize the critics, and the critics should be glad for the opportunity to supplement their own findings. But this constructive dialog will never take place if the reports are neatly marked confidential and filed away...
From Fleet Street, Thomson moved in every direction, gobbling up papers in Africa, the West Indies and the U.S., as well as in England. Thomson started a Sunday Times color supplement in 1962. He lost $2,000,000 the first year, but after that the Times's circulation jumped 120,000. Desperately, the other London papers rushed to get their own color supplements into print...
Lately Thomson has begun to change his image a little. "I am not," he protests, "a very charitable man." Nevertheless, he set up a $14 million foundation for education in Africa. In 1963, he celebrated the first birthday of his color supplement by flying a group of British businessmen to Moscow to meet Khrushchev. "Under our two systems," Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again...