Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...services, said Peterson, Washington should develop a new "global economic strategy" that recognizes the extraordinary strength of the U.S. economy. "The anxiety at home and abroad over the soundness of the dollar," he insisted, "is grossly exaggerated. The dollar will remain indefinitely the medium par excellence for financing international trade...
...never been happier. I wouldn't trade places with God." So says George M. Foster, 57, who sold his flourishing Los Angeles ice cream and catering business two years ago to become the operator of a boat marina at the fledgling Arizona town of Lake Havasu City. Foster's spirit is typical of the 2,500 settlers in three-year-old Havasu, an "instant city" built by the California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. along part of the 45-mile lake behind Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River...
...merely an act to keep his vulnerability and sensitivity from showing. The truth probably lies somewhere between. Cohn was a merchant. He made more than his share of shoddy products: the Blondie series, Boston Blackie, Crime Doctor. But the B pictures earned profits and gave Columbia a chance to trade up. It meant acquiring quality merchandise, and often Cohn paid the top wholesale price...
...decade of the 1950's. The complaint then was about the silent or apathetic generation, the generation of pre-organization men. The only prior decade which had given warning of the shape of things to come was the 1930's. But then students were adjuncts to the efforts of trade unionists, or of socialists and communists of the old Left, or of isolationists, America Firsters or pacifists. They were auxiliaries. They did not stand in their own right as a potential force in history...
...university as a base for power. The campus is the chosen focal point for activity. It is the place to arouse interest, recruit members, raise money, organize action, and from which to launch attacks on chosen targets. The trade union, the political party, and established voluntary organizations are no longer viewed as generally useful vehicles. Politics, in particular, takes too long and involves compromise...