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...monetary "float"-a relatively free market in which currency prices are determined by supply and demand. But instead of precipitating a complete free-for-all, the six partners agreed on a joint float, in which their own currencies will remain fixed in value against each other while fluctuating in unison against outside money like the U.S. dollar or Japanese yen. Several nations had to compromise individual policies to make that solution possible. Most notably, West Germany increased the value of the mark 3%. That move, which will make German exports a bit more expensive, has little economic justification except that...
...states, you can't get a plumber for love or money, but China is the very embodiment of the "work ethic" we have been hearing so much about lately. No wonder, then, that Nixon was reportedly exhilarated by the sight of 200,000 Chinese clearing snow in unison, or that Alsop was most impressed by the fact that under Mao, the Chinese people are "unremittingly hard working." Or that, by comparison with the needle-popping U.S. Army, the Chinese "New Model Army" inspired Alsop to write lyrically: "All the men appeared to be singularly tough, dedicated and able...
...demonstration provided an easy organizational vehicle for the committed and for the curious. So the people continued to gather, and the students continued to march, even as the war dragged on and it became increasingly clear that even thousands of collective voices yelling in unison could not capture official Washington's ear. Frustration and the sense that "maybe this time it will work" explains to a certain extent the unending periodic demonstrations. But in another sense they were almost necessary for the demonstrators themselves, to constantly re-establish their hazy beliefs with a mass-identity. One never really listened...
Each evening at 6 o'clock the man is summoned by prayer to a kitchen table ringed with seven children. They say in unison: "God, please take care of our daddy and bring him home real soon. Thank you for the fruits and vegetables from our garden, and all our family and friends...
...ritual went on. The judge read out the name of a murdered farm worker, then intoned the jury's verdict: "Guilty of murder in the first degree." Each time -25 times, the number of victims in the worst series of murders in U.S. history the jury responded in unison: "Yes." At the sixth or seventh count. Corona's wife Gloria broke into sobs. When it was over, his ten-year-old daughter collapsed and was rushed to a hospital. Corona himself, who had recently suffered his third heart attack in 19 months of confinement, remained calm and quietly...