Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about the obvious solution: reform of the world monetary system. Former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon warned that if "urgent" steps are not taken now to provide another source of liquidity, the dry-up of dollars will "hamper world trade, slow up the economic growth of individual countries and threaten a worldwide recession." Meeting in Basel, the Bank for International Settlements exhorted the major Western powers to end their stalemate over how to overhaul monetary arrangements. French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing cheered a throng of European financiers by indicating that France's position...
...country's beef and wheat economy is in chaos, $600 million in foreign debts fall due this year with no way to pay, and the country's 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan Perón have just won enough congressional seats to threaten government legislation. Argentina's violently anti-Perón military is again growing restless. "The position of the armed forces," commented a war ministry colonel, "is hardening...
...John Kenneth Galbraith, have suggested a strategy that may have less wrong with it than any other. It is to stop the bombing, strengthen land forces, clear and hold the cities and provinces still friendly with the Saigon government, and open negotiations for a settlement. This way Saigon could threaten the continued disunity of the country until a solution satisfactory to the Catholics, city-dwellers, and others who have been America's allies is reached. The guerrillas could not threaten the cities and friendly provincial areas because guerrilla warfare requires a friendly environment. The United States could promise to retaliate...
Belmondo, playing a Parisian mec supported by three prostitutes, describes one as "a country girl-so I have her work the park." The girl demands a pair of boots for bad-weather soliciting, and Belmondo snaps: "Boots attract perverts." When the gendarmes threaten to put him out of business, he marries a virginal barmaid (Marie Dubois), operates her café until she turns shrewish, then flees to Greece and sells himself to an aged playgirl...
They prepared an eight-page policy pamphlet which spelled out a program of "unilateral initiatives" for a stable peace which would not threaten the nation's deterrent. Couched in modern language, the Tocsin proposals were designed to elicit a meaningful dialogue between the demonstrators and official Washington...