Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance was missing from their blood: an enzyme forbiddingly named hypo-xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltrans-ferase, or PRT in the trade...
...European financial experts agreed that their countries must dip into their stores of gold and monetary reserves to spur economic growth. By doing so, the Europeans expect to help both themselves and other parts of the free world to resist rising unemployment and a slowdown in international trade, two deflationary forces unleashed by the U.S. and U.K. actions...
...treasury and central bank officials from ten nations at which the Europeans charted their new course. At a meeting in the elegant privacy of Château de la Muette, home of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group agreed that the wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during 1967. Thus continental Europe, which managed only a torpid 2.5% economic growth last year...
...Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight to get his job back by appealing his case to the local trade-union council...
Soviet Agents. In 1956, after West Germany had gained sovereignty, Gehlen's organization ended its dependence on the CIA. Gehlen, who was known in the trade as Herr Doktor, enjoyed Konrad Adenauer's close confidence. When Adenauer stepped aside in favor of Ludwig Erhard, Gehlen's standing declined in Bonn, partly because Erhard mistrusted espionage, and partly because of disclosures that two of Gehlen's aides had been double agents in Soviet employ. But Gehlen recovered a measure of his former influence under the Grand Coalition, even though he warned Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister...