After the breakdown of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971, a basket of currencies became the new reference.

This action created the situation whereby the U. S. dollar became the sole backing of currencies and a reserve currency for the member states of the Bretton Woods system, leading the system to collapse in the face of increasing financial strain in that same year.

However, it was not until 2002, after intense macroeconomic reform measures, that the dinar became convertible — a first since the Bretton Woods Agreements laid out the post-World War II international exchange rate regime.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were established by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and became operational in 1946.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were designed by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and the World Bank, then consisting of only the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, became operational in 1946.

* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )

2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date.

* Bonnie Woods, a former member who began counseling people involved with Scientology and their families, became a target along with her husband Richard in 1993 when the Church of Scientology started a leaflet operation denouncing her as a " hate campaigner " with demonstrators outside their home and around East Grinstead.

Joseph's son, Benjamin J. Altheimer, became a successful attorney, establishing the prominent Chicago law firm of Altheimer, Mayer, Woods, and Smith ( later known as Altheimer & Gray ), and serving twice as president of Chicago's Iroquois Club, the city's oldest Democratic Party political club.

Historically, Woods Hole included one of the few good harbors ( along with Hyannis ) on the southern side of Cape Cod ( i. e. Great Harbor, contained by Penzance Point ) and became a center for whaling, shipping, and fishing, prior to its dominance today by tourism and marine research.

The school, which had previously been located at Camden Point, Missouri, later became William Woods College for Women, which later became a Coed University, thus accepting men.

International Artists pulled together the various studio recordings from 1968 and with the assistance of drummer Danny Thomas added some horn arrangements, which became the Bull Of The Woods album, released c. March 1969.

Woods has said that he became an actor because of the father of actor Ben Affleck, Tim Affleck, who was a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston while Woods was a student there.

" Southern Sun " became a smashing hit as it was then released as the A-Side of " Ready Steady Go " in mid-2002, " Ready Steady Go " was featured in Saab commercials, the EA Sports game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, THQ game Juiced, the pilot for the television program Las Vegas, and as the NASCAR theme song for 2006.

They became romantically involved during filming of the movie Diggstown, where Woods had landed the starring role and Graham a featured role.

Next year they built Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods which became his headquarters for the next several years.

The Bretton Woods Conference took place in July 1944, but did not become operative until late December 1958, when all the European currencies became convertible.

In the last stages of the Second World War, in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, the Bank for International Settlements became the crux of a fight that broke out when the Norwegian delegation put forth evidence that the BIS was guilty of war crimes and put forth a motion to dissolve the bank ; the Americans, specifically President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, supported this motion.

; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Riley was introduced in the show's fourth season as a recurring character and became a regular in the episode " Doomed " and continued on as a regular until season five's " Into the Woods ", and appeared once afterward.

It was at this time that he became acquainted with Joseph Woods, the botanist, and formed an interest in looking for unusual plant life that would remain a lifelong pastime.

Colonel Little held the post of Surveyor of the King's Woods, and the town was named in his honor when it was incorporated in 1784, the same year New Hampshire became a state.

" Bonnie Woods, an ex-member who began counseling people involved with Scientology and their families, became a target along with her husband in 1993 when the Church of Scientology started a leaflet operation denouncing her as a " hate campaigner " with demonstrators outside their home and around East Grinstead.

In 2012, the New Video Group became the new video distributor to distribute the home entertainment business of Scholastic, including the Weston Woods Studios library, Scholastic Storybook Treasures, and most recently, their home entertainment rights to the 2002 movie adaptation of the book Stellaluna from MGM.

Then Donald Woods, a journalist, editor and close friend of Biko's, along with Helen Zille, later leader of the Democratic Alliance political party, exposed the truth behind Biko's death.

* 19 – Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko, by South African security forces.

The editor of the local newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, was Donald Woods.

To fulfil his friend's dream, Moses took over and appointed Robert Carr Woods as editor.

While working on the Western Mail, Cardiff, Woods became friends with colleague Glyn Williams, who later joined him on the Daily Dispatch and eventually became editor himself.

As editor, Woods expanded the readership of the Dispatch to include Afrikaans speakers as well as black readers in nearby Transkei and Ciskei.

The premise of Cry Freedom is based on the true story of Steve Biko, the charismatic South African Black Consciousness Movement leader who attempts to bring awareness to the injustice of Apartheid ; and Donald Woods, the liberal white editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper who struggles to do the same after Biko is murdered.

Leading editorial contributors to the late 1970s IT were Heathcote Williams, Max Handley, Mike Lesser, Eddie Woods ( Amsterdam editor ), and Chris Sanders.

Previous editor Will Porter replaced Jamie Sefton in March 2008, who in turn was the replacement for Dave Woods after the magazine's redesign at the end of 2005.

Woods was the editor for some years of the Marxist journal Socialist Appeal, published in London.

In 1979 editor Bruce Woods and two other employees bought the magazine from the Shuttleworths.

Clarke was the first editor of the journal to publish poetry, and he published verse by Melville Crane, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Mark Van Doren, and Margaret L. Woods.

White newspaper editor Donald Woods supported the movement and Biko, whom he had befriended, by leaving South Africa and exposing the truth behind Biko's death at the hands of police by publishing the book Biko.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

Socialist Appeal is the publication of a British Trotskyist tendency operating within the Labour Party which was founded by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant tendency in the early 1990s.

As well as publishing their magazine Socialist Appeal, the group has also published a number of books by Leon Trotsky, Ted Grant and Alan Woods.

However, he and his supporters were expelled from the tendency and together with Alan Woods they formed Socialist Appeal in Britain.

Currently, International Marxist Tendency ( IMT ) is headed by Alan Woods and Lal Khan.

In 2010 Ramon Muchacho, leader of the main Venzualean opposition party Primero Justicia, claimed that Alan Woods of the IMT was the " principal ideological adviser and personal friend " of Hugo Chávez, a claim played down by Alan Woods.

Grant and Woods and their supporters internationally formed the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992, which was later to be known as the International Marxist Tendency ( IMT ), and remained active in the Labour Party.