Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, the U.S. has developed what sociologists call "serial polygamy," often consisting of little more than a succes sion of love affairs with slight legal trimmings. Cynics point out that serial polygamy was a fact even in Puritan times, when men had three or four wives because women were apt to die young; nowadays, divorce rather than death provides variety...
...Kwame Nkrumah is to Africa today what Lenin was to the Soviet Union in 1917," Ghana's Defense Minister said recently. The parallel is most apt, for Nkrumah is rapidly turning his country into an absolute dictatorship. Items last week...
Since future Pentagon outlays are apt to go to big, well-managed firms that can afford to invest in cost-saving methods, small companies will be pinched hardest. Hundreds of tiny subcontractors, many of them in the vulnerable electronics industry, will be hurt if prime contractors are forced to do more work themselves to keep their own shops busy. As for the big contractors, their main worry is that the spending slowdown will hobble the growth rates they want to keep...
...better answer to the crucial question lies in the seldom publicized accomplishments of Negroes in more private vocations. Here the barriers are tougher, and the Negro is less apt to be prepared, since to him many such fields have long seemed closed. Yet in science and education, the professions and in business, the armed forces and Government, even in elective politics, individual Negroes have broken the barriers, earned positions of respect and trust, and become part of the U.S. leadership community (see following pages...
...sense, Charles de Gaulle had once more had his way, but the victory really belonged to all Europe. The agricultural dispute was the last major internal test that the Common Market is apt to face for some time, and its settlement means that the Market can now proceed on two legs-industrial and agricultural-rather than the one on which it has been hopping. In fact, so unrestrained was enthusiasm over the settlement that the bitterness and mistrust caused by De Gaulle's brutal veto of British membership last Jan. 14 seemed finally to be dissipating...