Word: branching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back." Cidade Presidente Kennedy, founded in April 1964 700 miles north of Brasilia, already has a population of 1,000. Araguaina, which got its start in 1958 as a road-construction camp 500 miles north of Brasilia, is now up to 8,000 people, has its own branch of the Bank of Brazil and will soon have a $1,600,000 factory that will refine oil from native babaçú nuts, peanuts, cotton and sunflower seeds, produce the cans in which to export the oil and cut up local mahogany to make cases for the cans...
...surprised the nation's merchants is how strongly consumers continued to step up their spending all through 1965 -and how clear the signs are that they intend to go right on doing so into 1966. "This is the consumption economy," says Fred Lazarus Jr., chairman of the 83-branch Federated Stores chain. "It's a retailer's dream come true...
...good beginning was not enough for the two faculty organizations that had set up shop to negotiate-with the administration for professorial rights. The 100-member local of the United Federation of College Teachers, .and a branch of the American Association of University Professors representing 200 professors (many teachers belong to both) took turns badgering the administration. The teachers' union opened a drive to win collective bargaining for the faculty, a right that no U.S. university grants. The A.A.U.P. set deadlines for the trustees to act on changes recommended by St. John's new faculty council. Impatient...
...vast majority of Jewish children receive their religious education at congregation-run schools that open when public school lets out. At the Forest Hills Jewish Center on Long Island, students spend three afternoons a week studying Jewish history, customs, the Bible, Hebrew. Although programs are similar for all branches of Judaism, Orthodox schools give the stiffest dose of Hebrew, while schools of the Reform branch emphasize ethics...
Organized only 21 months ago, Koratron already does an $18 million business, has 413 clients who pay for the right to use its process. It is about to open a Canadian branch, will soon license a Far East operation to be called Koratron Technique Hong Kong, which will take advantage of the huge clothing market in the Orient...