Word: wider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Road Ahead. At its September meeting in Washington, the International Monetary Fund is expected to appoint a committee to study the many peg plans. IMF Executive Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer has invited official discussion of the peg and a companion plan for greater exchange-rate flexibility, the "wider band." Under this plan, currencies would be allowed to swing 2% to 3% above or below their official parity. A wider band would give the crawling peg more room in which to crawl, and would lessen the frequency with which central banks have to intervene in world money markets to support...
...object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans ?and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. La causa's magnetic champion and the country's most prominent Mexican-American leader is Cesar Estrada Chavez, 42, a onetime grape picker who combines a mystical mien with peasant earthiness. La causa is Chavez's whole life...
Some theologians feel that such vehement denunciation of white Christians can only lead to a narrowly parochial vision at a time when the need is for wider understanding. As Dr. Rosemary Ruether of Howard University's School of Religion recently wrote in America, an authentic black theology "would understand the genus 'man' as the universal within which it places its own celebration of black humanity. In that form it would be a catholic theology, a theology with universal validity, and not a form of racism...
...made the startling discovery that SDS meetings were a drag and tended to consume whole evenings at a gulp. For another, I drifted into alternative extracurricular pursuits where people seemed to get on a lot easier with each other and where it was possible to meet a considerably wider assortment. Still, I continued to assume, come the revolution, that I would leap forth-with into the ranks of Harvard's insurgents, whoever they might be. And I continued to assume as much through the three years that intervened between the vision and the event. So it was not until...
...musical instruments-many of his gongs are on loan from the Santa Barbara Museum-he has worked as a laborer, office clerk and house painter. Despite his meager income from an average of three concerts a week, Tree envisages adding more instruments to create a wider range of sound. Eventually, he hopes to build a concert hall to his own specifications. The hall, as Tree plans it, would resonate sufficiently to serve as a musical instrument itself...