Word: unload
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, De Gaulle pitted his own paramount need to unload France's high-priced farm surpluses against his partners' abiding desire for progress toward political integration. It was a familiar script, and it had always turned out the same way-France's way. Not this time. When French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville threatened Non unless the Common Market extended its community-wide farm-price agreements for five more years, the other members of the Six chorused Non! Non! Non! This time, they demanded, France could have its way on farm prices only by agreeing to major...
...selling, but nobody did much buying, either. The pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies -which account for about one-third of all trading-conspicuously sat on their millions and waited for stocks to fall still lower in hopes of scooping up bargains. At midweek individual investors began to unload; larger numbers of 100-share and 200-share transactions danced across the illuminated ticker tape in the stock exchange...
Argentina's long-suffering citizens are getting fed up with it all. Last week a riot erupted at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport when ground crews refused to unload baggage-including the wheelchair of a 14-year-old paraplegic boy. In another part of town, an enraged 65-year-old pension applicant whipped out a pistol and killed a go-slow clerk when she foisted still another form on him and suggested that he return in a few days; it was the fifth time he had been put off, and each refusal meant a 70-mile round trip from...
...undergo economic crises than Britain, whose sterling is the world's second reserve currency after the dollar. Sterling is thus held temporarily by persons all over the world because of the ease with which it can be used in banking and trading-and many of them tend to unload it as quickly as possible when it seems to be threatened by economic difficulties. Since Britain buys so much more than it sells, three-quarters of its sterling reserves are in foreign hands, a fact that straps the British economy into a straitjacket. The only way out of the jacket...
...Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted on doctrinaire legislation such as renationalization of steel, hinted at new, incentive-stifling corporate and capital-gains taxes. Convinced that Britain's financial position could only worsen, international bankers scrambled to unload their sterling holdings...