Word: groups
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...called because they are downwind of the prevailing northeasterly trade winds. Though the entire Lesser Antilles chain was known to the Spaniards as the Windward Islands-Islas de Barlovento -the group running from the Virgins to Guadeloupe is now known as the Leewards...
Brothers Kuhn Loeb. The group held ten meetings over a two-year period and consulted experts ranging from Henry Kissinger to Economist Barbara Ward...
...producing and -consuming countries." Petroleum exporting nations, on their side, would guarantee levels of production and avoid sudden, large price increases. In return, the developed countries would commit themselves to a stiff conservation program and agree to index the price of oil to the real value of a group of strong currencies. The report also urges an all-out program to discover new oil and gas deposits in Third World countries...
Economic Reform. The group proposes the creation of a new international financial institution where the poor countries would have a stronger voice in bankrolling further development. Brandt calls for the establishment of an international tax, perhaps on trade or arms shipments, with the proceeds going to the poorer nations. The troubled world money system should be reformed to restore greater stability among the leading currencies...
...Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid, all the current shows celebrate the theater of cruelty and the entertainment values of Las Vegas. Masochistic contestants meet fourth-rate Hollywood celebrities in a neon-lit orgy of product plugola, group hysteria and psychological mayhem...