Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midnight, just as the police were changing shifts the freshman -- many notified in advance by telephone -- gathered at the base of the John Harvard statue...
...nearly 14% a year; industry on the island is four times broader than it was in 1952. >Taiwan's trade balance, which once ran a $100 million annual deficit in spite of U.S. aid (discontinued in 1965), is now only $34 million in deficit on a much larger base ($569 million in exports and $603 million in imports). Meanwhile, foreign exchange reserves last year rose another 10% to $337 million. >Per-capita income, rising 4½% each year, has nearly doubled to $200. With prices stabilized the ordinary Taiwanese has begun to buy rice cookers and radios, and total...
...health, Board Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. recently prescribed price cuts for his slow-moving Rambler American economy line. The first sales figures showed an encouraging upturn-and Chapin, dining in a Chicago restaurant, cheerily ordered strolling musicians to play Just in Time. The American's $1,839 base price - well under that of any other U.S. compact and only $200 more than the Volkswagen-has indeed helped tune up sales, which in April rose 8% over the same month last year, to 7,371 cars. Nevertheless, as of last week, most of the sounds coming out of A.M.C...
...achieved economic stability first by reforming the agricultural base, which more often than not is a millstone around the neck of a developing nation. Because of the spine-like ridge of mountains that runs up the middle of Taiwan, only 3,000 of the island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their...
...city licenses all the pushcart men. Many years ago, almost anyone could get a license. Friday morning before the market opened, the vendors would line up at the base of Faneuil Hall (just across Dock Square). At a signal they would race across the Square with their pushcarts, trying to get to the best sites on Blackstone Street. Words and sometimes assorted vegetables, were exchanged in the competition. After a few carts, tomatoes and apples went spinning across the pavement, the City decided to license only a fixed number of "regulars." They occupy assigned sites on Blackstone Street until they...