Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intrinsic part of everyday life. For the youngsters in Viet Cong-run schools, the effort to instill the "spirit of struggle" begins right in the first grade. Ten-year-olds learn from their chemistry textbooks how to mix and use explosives, and in physics they are taught how to build a bunker so as to make it safe against various kinds of allied shelling and bombing. If they do well at these lessons, they are rewarded by being declared "Uncle Ho's good nephew (or niece)." The following first-and second-grade arithmetic problems, taken from a textbook published...
...make countersweep preparations, you intend to build three boards studded with spikes. Each board has four spikes. How many spikes do you have to sharpen...
...Color-television manufacturers so underestimated their market-figuring that it would build as slowly as black and white television did-that they were unable to keep up with sales. Now one bottleneck has been solved with increased production of picture tubes and another by stepping up the output of cabinets. But if anything goes wrong with the set, the owner will soon discover that there is a drastic shortage of people...
...addition to flying the island-hopping routes, Continental will build and operate six small resort hotels. "With our new aircraft and the hotel facilities," says Six, "we'll do some business all right. These islands are important to our Government and important to tourism." They are also important to Six's ambition to have Continental certified as a carrier to the Far East. His bid was turned down last month by a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner. But Six, who is a loyal Democrat and active party fund raiser, hopes that the decision will be reversed by the time...
...start slowing down. Says he: "When I get to be 65, I want to stay active in the company, but I don't want to be on the firing line every day at that age. My Number One job will be to find a new president and build up Continental with new routes and new business so I'll have a respectable airline to turn over to a younger...