Word: trades
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England's faltering economy makes decisions about new towns tough for the Government. The country has a limited amount of farmland and a severe housing shortage. But if new towns are to be built, farmlands must be lost. In addition, England's balance of trade deficit has forced Wilson to freeze wages and tighten money. But these measures make investors less willing to move or expand into new towns...
...Bureau Chief Louis Kraar: "Many military officers assigned to Thailand say they have used the story as orientation because it was just about the only thing that was both complete and current, yet concise." ¶ On five-acre Pigeon Island in the South Pacific, Tom Hepworth, who runs a trading post, read in Modern Living of a worldwide vacation-home-exchange service based in Connecticut. He wrote the agency for help in finding someone in New Zealand who would trade homes so he could take his eight-year-old daughter there for open-heart surgery at Auckland's famed...
...Cheats." Still, the game has proved so popular that 32 stations in the U.S. are now polling their audiences on everything from Ho Chi Minh to miniskirts, world trade to the World Series. When Station KSTR of Minneapolis-St. Paul asked whether the clergy should take part in civil rights marches, the crush of calls jammed the station's lines and short-circuited the switchboard of the nearby Midway Hospital. Of the 4,326 callers who did get through, 62% held that clergymen should stay in the pulpit and off the pavement...
...loans from the Lebanese central bank, which halted subsequent runs on Beirut's 71 other locally owned banks, foreign confidence in Lebanese banking has faltered. Many billionaire sheiks, whose deposits had helped to make Beirut the banking capital of the Middle East, moved their riches elsewhere. Tourist trade, the other principal prop of Lebanon's economy, all but vanished with the Middle East war. Now, in once bustling Beirut, sumptuous hotels are almost empty, restaurants deserted, harbor-import traffic slow, nightclubs closed, stores shuttered for lack of customers...
...Tiger Makes Out is a comedy, but the jokes, and laughs, are small ones. Author Murray Schisgal (he wrote Luv) likes to stretch situations that are, as they say, "all too real" and draw smiles with the resulting absurdities. His favorite device is a rapid trade of cliches by people quite oblivious to their banality...