Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syed Nurul Alam, lecturer in Economics at Decca University in Pakistan, attributed his country's success to its policy of "to live and let others live." This slogan, he asserted, has allowed his divided nation to set up two capitals, establish a stable banking and currency system, and build up its industry...
...Nationalized Suez Canal Co., following the U.S. withdrawal of its offer to help build $1.3 billion Aswan dam ("Americans, may you choke on your fury"). Then his armies were badly beaten by the invading British, French and Israelis...
...president's task at the University of California is awesome: to build a towering structure on a huge and varied foundation, and to make it habitable for scholarship. While coping with faculty committees, regents' mandates and a legislature as lobby-larded as any in the nation (one lobby by no means friendly to the university: that of the state teachers colleges), Kerr must spy out the special problems of bigness. One of them: the necessity for another 5,000 teachers...
...league and his plans for a new baseball home in Chavez Ravine run into snags from all quarters. The voters last month approved the city's plan to make over to the Dodgers 169 acres of city-owned land in the Ravine so the Dodgers could build a stadium and parking lot there. But last week a Los Angeles court ruled the contract illegal...
...With the backing of most rival sugarmen, the Cuban government keeps tight control on the industry to curb overproduction and bolster prices. It also cooperates with the sugar workers' unions in crippling growers with restrictions that tie the industry to old-fashioned methods. Cuban millers, for example, cannot build a factory without destroying the old one first. Result: Cuba has not had a new sugar mill since...