Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downs of the U.S. birth rate (see chart) have experts pondering the mysteries of cause and effect. After both World Wars, there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation...
Deeply Disturbed. Even though non-whites account for only 2% of Britain's population, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites bowed to mounting public pressure and rammed emergency legislation through Parliament to shut off the flood of Asians from East Africa. The British have become increasingly concerned about the thousands of Asians entering the country each month (v. only about 500 a month in former years) as a result of Kenya's intensified job and economic discrimination against them. Under the new law, Britain will admit a fixed total of 1,500 Asian household heads a year...
...French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half of the Ivory Coast's salaried urban working force and an amazing 25% of the country's 4,000,000 people...
Sport-Cola achieves that distinction by foregoing the extra dose of caffeine that most cola makers add to the tiny quantity present in kola nuts. In name and formula both, the beverage is aimed primarily at the 80 million U.S. youths under 20, who account for almost half of cola-drink consumption. Says Canada Dry President David J. Mahoney: "We're giving the consumer one more choice...
Astonishingly, the lessons of the recent Indonesian episode have not been learned. A Communist revolution was crushed by indigenous forces and American officials claim that the U.S. presence in Vietnam "encouraged" the Indonesian army and people to resist the Communists. This account does not gibe with the fact that at the last U.N. General Assembly meeting the Indonesian foreign minister, arch-conservative Adam Malik, denounced the war in Vietnam...