Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cornerstone of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength--and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight...
...what are the values that Palmer is trying to build in? What are the sources of black pride? In large part, it turns out, black pride begins with hostility to what is white. "Look what we've got--jazz, spirituals, the blues," he said. "Name me one original thing that's come from white Protestant culture here, something that doesn't derive from Europe...
...School's subsequent report, released late this summer, advised that the city build five large "educational centers" to replace all its high schools. The centers would serve approximately 5000 students each and would draw their enrollments from large districts that would cut across the borders of Negro neighborhoods. The report estimated that the student bodies of these centers would vary between 21.3 and 34 per cent Negro. Now, there are at least three high schools with student bodies more than 90 per cent Negro, and a number of other schools which are virtually all-white. The educational centers should...
...Peace project have already quickened a northern rush in anticipation of the power. British Columbia can muster some epic boomtown types. In Prince George, for instance, there is Contractor Ben Ginter, who arrived in 1949 with a stake of $1,500. He has run it to $20 million since, building highways and pulp mills, and a $250,000 hilltop house for himself that includes an indoor waterfall and swimming pool fed by a diverted mountain creek. While clearing the sites for the new pulp mills of Prince George, Ginter thought ahead and bought up swatches of land in the hills...
Interest in the frozen way to immortality has led to the establishment of firms in Phoenix and New York that design and build equipment to contain bodies preserved by liquid nitrogen. These capsules cost more than $4,000 and require another $150 a year in maintenance. One woman who agreed to have her remains frozen explained: "With bad luck, I'll stay simply dead. With good luck, I may live again. It's worth trying...