Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ranh Bay, destined to be one of the world's biggest ports, will ease the bottleneck when it is completed next year. McNamara last week ordered 10,000 additional logistical and engineering and support troops to Viet Nam to help relieve the jam. Meanwhile, as a Saigon logistics officer puts it, "trying to handle this buildup is like a juggler on a tightrope trying to drink from a firehose...
...complete development plan will permit the University to construct a pleasantly landscaped pedestrian link between the Yard and the Law School campus and will remove a traffic bottleneck at the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets...
Imaginative Recipe. All this speed is the Japanese National Railways' imaginative recipe for breaking a transportation bottleneck that is squeezing the nation's industrial heart. The scenic green seaboard between Tokyo and Osaka-containing only 16% of Japan's land-holds 43% of its population and half of its 500,000 factories. The lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats...
...Council came to the rescue. They produced a new resolution requiring all member states to "refrain from any action or threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this week. Other nations had weighed in with...
Kenya, Africa's newest nation, has a primary school system that enrolls a generous 80% of eligible-age children, a secondary school bottleneck that drastically cuts down advancement, and a post-secondary system that further constricts the flow so that the country's ultramodern, $11 million Royal College is left scandalously underpopulated...