Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against the French, Ho Chi Minh was offered the support of Mao Tse-tung's advancing Communist army, which might have meant quick, joint victory. Ho declined. Later, with pithy logic, he explained why he had preferred to fight a protracted guerrilla war on his own: "It is better to sniff the French dung for a while than to eat China's all our lives...
...Vietnamese, they benefit from the fact that they are defending their own country against a historically hated enemy. They are proven fighters with undeniable staying power. "It's too early to tell who is better," says a U.S. Defense Department expert. "Man for man, the weight of experience would be on the Vietnamese side...
...Vietnamese forces could blunt their advantages. Heavy casualties in Cambodia have severely impaired some Vietnamese soldiers' will to fight. Recruits have bribed their officers to let them return home. The AWOL rate is so high that the army command has announced a two-year reorganization plan that will better integrate the demoralized southern troops into a more aggressive fighting force. Mao Tse-tung may have been right when he said, "Weapons are an important factor in war but not the decisive factor; it is people not things that are decisive...
...become less hospitable to children. In their history, Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock, insisted in 1928 that children must be treated with cold scientific detachment. "Never hug and kiss them," he advised...
...billion this year to the $29 billion that Carter projects for the fiscal year beginning in October. The Board of Economists expects the deficit in fiscal 1980 to bulge to $45 billion. In fact, says Alan Greenspan, head of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, "Carter has a better chance of bringing in the budget below $30 billion this fiscal year than next." One reason: tax receipts this year will be up because the economy was much stronger than expected this winter and expenditures will be below expectations...