Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup made with chicken giblets, dill pickles and brine...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
During the first third of November. Cadillac, Buick and Pontiac shattered sales records. The tendency of customers to trade up from lower-priced cars cheers most automakers because costlier cars bring fatter profit margins. But what worries the auto companies' big-picture men is that once a customer hankers to trade for something fancier, he may jump to the other firm's line. In October, sales of Ford Motor's middle-priced Mercurys fell 11%, to 33,000, and its Lincolns dropped 18%, to 7,300. For that reason Ford shifted drivers at its Lincoln-Mercury Division...
...hundred years ago, trade followed the gunboat. Now it follows the text book and the teacher. Instead of realiz ing this, so many publishers go in for an orgy of putrid books...
...most unpopular publisher - among other publishers. By acting on his beliefs, Maxwell has not only become a multimillionaire, but also in 15 years has lifted his Pergamon Press Ltd. from obscurity to No. 1 rank as a publisher of scientific and technical books (600 last year) and trade journals (120, from The Archives of Oral Biology to Problems of Cybernetics...