Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY tells the Runyonesque tale of a doll who tries to trade the dance hall for domesticity but can't find the guy to go with it. Bob Fosse's direction and choreography are suave and sophisticated...
...Cortes. The 611-member Cortes, meantime, will be reduced to 403 members, including 108 who will be directly elected from Spain's 54 provinces, 25 who will be appointed by the chief of state, and 270 others who will be elected by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions and professional organizations. Thus, for the first time since the Civil War, Spaniards will have a say-though yet hardly more than a whisper-in the work of the legislature...
...parties, but this in no way implies the exclusion of legitimate contrast of opinions." What Franco did was trim the power of his own politically potent Falange, which has long dominated the Spanish labor movement. He abolished the old laws banning strikes and requiring that only Falangistas hold top trade-union jobs...
...produced fewer than 1.4 million cars, only half as many as West Germany. In steel, France turned out 19.5 million metric tons, compared with Britain's 27 million and Germany's 36 million. Germany exports about twice as much as France. The French may well run a trade deficit for 1966, and the franc has been weakening on world markets. Business is plagued by low profits, old plants, inadequate research, a shortage of capital and a faltering stock market...
...stimulate sales abroad, government agencies have stepped up export credits and insurance, have even begun to lend money to importers of French goods. France sees a great market in Russia. Last week Debre jetted to Moscow in hopes of putting some spunk into the two-year-old Franco-Soviet trade pact; the Russians had promised to buy $345 million worth of French goods this year, but as of October had ordered only $250 million worth...