Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those of depression. Again and again, he tells listeners that they never had it so good, and he unabashedly counts America's-and his-blessings in his speeches. "We have many problems," he says, "but there is not a nation in the world that I would want to trade problems with. We have more people working at better jobs, with better homes and better health and better education, than live under any other flag in any other land, and we ought to be thankful...
...true enough, or at least half true, but such assumptions are usually accompanied by the nostalgic and false notion that the past was better, more straightforward, more honest. The fact is that in freewheeling 19th-century America, high-level fraud was far more spectacular than today, when business, trade and politics must function under rigid controls and searching publicity. What has increased is the opportunity for the pettier kinds of cheating, largely because of the growth of communities and of population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities, and cities into megalopolises...
Operating behind front men, UDBA owned several ocean-going cargo ships, and engineered its own trade deals with foreign merchants. UDBA also maneuvered managers into top positions in state-owned industries and then demanded a kickback from their salaries...
...said, the U.N. has yet to agree "on basic principles" for its prime mission of peacekeeping. It has also failed, he noted, to become "universal," meaning that Red China should be seated. U Thant felt, too, that the U.S. and Western Europe were not doing enough to improve trade terms with poorer countries of the world. Then there was Viet Nam. "To day," he said, "the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war, while efforts to reverse that trend are lagging disastrously behind. In my view, the tragic error is being repeated of relying on force...
...three days of toasts, banquets and amicable discussions, Maurer echoed Ceausescu's theme of cooperation in the Balkans by means of bilateral relations. The Rumanians made a fair start in Greece: at visit's end, the two nations initiated a communique covering not only trade and economic cooperation but also such esoteric items as telecommunications and plant-disease control...