Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been planning their fall campaign since June-with the basic outline going back as far as the summer of 1967-and the Republican strategy is now all but complete. In essence, the pitch will be to whites, with the Negro vote a very secondary consideration. "You can't build a campaign on Negro votes that you don't have and probaoly can't get," says a top Nixon strategist. "We're going after the middle-class Democratic urban voter, and the buttons you push there are Viet Nam, law and order, taxes, inflation...
...tribalism: the tenacious loyalty of 140 million Africans to primitive subgroups that represent certainty amid bewildering social and economic upheavals. On the other side is nationalism: the heady hope of creating modern states that will lead to African affluence and power. Until African leaders unify divisive tribes and build strong economies, the dream cannot be attained. Over most of Africa, false expectations of instant progress have incited unrest and power drives by rival tribes. Exploited by ambitious politicians, tribalism has become the chief complication of almost every major African conflict...
...which athletes are officially competing by their eighth birthday. With the phenomenal growth of age-group swimming, there are now some 3,000 clubs tutoring upwards of 275,000 water babies. Starting at the age of six or seven, promising youngsters paddle more than two miles a day to build themselves into racing form. Soon they are competing in club aquacades against others their own age in hopes of winning an A.A.U. badge and national recognition. By the time they are twelve, today's swimmers are accomplished veterans, harder of limb, sounder of lung and infinitely faster than their...
...direly short of educational funds, and university enrollment during the next decade is expected to nearly double, from 15,911 to 27,000. The merger will end a costly duplicating of facilities. Ireland has no nuclear reactor, for example, because it could not in the past afford to build one at each university. Under the government's plan, both schools will keep their separate liberal arts faculties. Trinity is to be responsible for all work in biological sciences, law and medicine; University College will take over the physical sciences, engineering and business school programs. Students at both campuses will...
...year's end. Wall Street seems to see that as a sure sign of turnaround, and last week the company was huddling with Manhattan moneymen over plans to raise $50 million in new capital. The badly needed long-term deal would be used to bankroll new dealerships and build new models...