Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report secondly called on the government to insure maximum price competition through strong anti-trust law enforcement and free trade...
...Brazilians listened to his promise to "humanize" the bureaucracy, promote a "Year of Education" and declare war on inflation. He did manage to slash the annual rate of inflation from 40% to 25%. The nation's gross national product edged up by 5%. Brazil's trade in coffee, cotton and other agricultural products came into balance...
...this year, a new auto-industry record would be merely an outside possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same reason: the time had come to trade in cars that they had bought during the previous record sales spree of three years...
British bankers have a reputation for being a stuffy lot. In the words of a Board of Trade commission, they run their banks "as a club for the benefit of members, not the public." They keep the most bankerish of bankers' hours, charge high rates for their services, and send their customers statements only once every three months. Small wonder that most adult Britons assiduously avoid checking accounts...
...made that sex is one of the few realities left in a world of confused identities." David Cornwell, who as John le Carrè wrote The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and The Looking Glass War, says this in discussing the exploitation of sex by the publishing trade. In his spy novels, Le Carrè himself has ignored the libidinous and gone directly to the problem of the confused identities of bumbling antiheroes. A Small Town in Germany is more a skillful novel of political intrigue than a spy story, but Le Carr...