Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most visible young dissenters the recognizable types of 30 years ago-the trade unionists or the ideologues who peddled assorted versions of Marxism. They had specific programs and demands, many of which could be accommodated in relatively rational terms, and eventually were. With today's breed of kid revolutionaries, who would close...
...enough to live on. But no one is interested in buying anything, outside of subsistence goods, except land. Nobody has respect for the Greek currency. Many people said they were hoarding British Gold Pounds for the period after the regime. The junta's claim that the tourist trade was "much better in 1968 than in the previous year" is true but there still aren't nearly as many tourists as before the revolution...
...course, is to hire more faculty. Sizer could throw out established or incipient research projects to raise the funds and hire faculty but he refuses. "There have been very few schools," says Sizer, "that have been able to stay with basic inquiry. The one's that don't, become trade schools. We can't keep putting band-aids on urban schools. We've got to have some long-range solutions." To get at the problem of training teachers Sizer has applied for a federal grant to fund two clinical training schools and the faculty to fill them. He hopes...
Crossbows and Coffins. The rise in exports can be largely attributed to the fact that last November's devaluation of the pound is finally taking effect. Meanwhile, major industries, with help from the government, are also making serious efforts to increase their export trade, and small businessmen are trying harder than ever to sell abroad. One delegation of small traders arriving in the U.S. recently included a dealer in crossbows equipped with telescopic sights, manufacturers of sedan chairs and stagecoaches, and a promoter from Surrey who maintains that he can provide "the most distinguished casket since Shakespeare...
...month's figures, the Board of Trade warned, does not mean the end of a situation that only a week earlier had sent the British to Basel to arrange another $2 billion in credits from friendly central bankers (TIME, Sept. 20). Indeed, the board last week pointed out that some of the August increase in exports resulted from an "erratic" jump in diamond shipments. Nevertheless the figures, coupled with those of earlier months, do indicate a trend of sorts. Exports from June to August as a whole are 5% above those of March, April and May. Said London...