Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little understood outside the field of banking and professional economics, the peoples of the Western world owe their rising living standard in large part to the monetary system that now shows increasing signs of fragility. There are at least two separate, but related, troubles. The volume of world trade is rising far more quickly than the global supply of gold. To overcome that gap, the IMF last year devised a sort of "paper gold"-a new international money called "special drawing rights." Use of the SDKs, as they are called, awaits ratification by nations that contribute at least...
Hollow Tie Clasp. In the end, it was his audacity that led to his conviction. When a disaffected KGB agent betrayed him, he was caught red-handed with the tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...
Into the Vacuum. Before he returned home last week, the Shah, in his ambitious new role as benevolent big brother to Saudi Arabia and the diverse sheikdoms along the Gulf, promised Saudi Arabia a new medical school, complete with professors. He brought along a trade pact that will supply arid Arabia with fresh meat, vegetables and eggs. And he offered the Saudi airline a share of the lucrative annual hadj flights, the trips to Mecca by devout pilgrims from Iran...
...poorest nations on the continent. Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation...
...later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...