Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic aid to Bolivia into agricultural development because the Administration was reluctant to aid nationalized mines, and wanted to see the Bolivian economy diversified. Under the Kennedy Administration, the policy of no aid to tin mining has been abandoned. U.S. Ambassador Ben Stephansky persuaded President Paz to adopt a program calling for a 65% increase in Bolivian tin production by 1967. To obtain funds for modernizing the mines, Comibol entered into a three-cornered aid pact, called "Operation Triangular," with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany. In return for $38 million in aid, Comibol undertook...
...rework the tunes when they return to town. Often old men appear from villages with melodies they want the Okayistes to hear. "They play it on their primitive instruments-a few strings strung across a box," says one of Franco's men, "and if we like it, we adopt it." Not one member of the band reads a note of music. "We keep our music in our heads...
...ENGLEWOOD, NJ. The state commissioner of education ordered Englewood's Lincoln School to adopt a plan for ending de facto segregation before September, thereby signaling an end to a nine-year-old dispute. In 1954 the city school board redrew school boundaries in a way that concentrated Negro students in the Lincoln district. Negroes have fought the move since...
...million-double last year's quarterly average. The Common Market economies are moving closer together, and last week the Six carried out another scheduled 10% industrial-tariff cut among themselves, bringing their total tariff disarmament to 60%. Equally important, the Common Market Commission recommended that its members adopt another major unifying proposal by Commission Vice President Robert Marjolin of France...
...your own customers employed," says Brownridge. His American Motors (100% U.S.-owned) won Ontario's "A for Achievement" by increasing its Canadian purchases 500% since 1961. White Motor Co. of Canada is testing a Canadian-designed combination battery box and gasoline tank that the U.S. parent company may adopt for all White trucks. But on many manufactured items, Canadian productivity and pricing simply cannot compete. "Several firms have been to see us about buying their hydraulic systems," says Cockshutt's George Vincent. "When we tell them what we're buying at in the States, they shake their...