Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, Rhodesia has been unable to sell the bulk of its tobacco crop -the nation's biggest cash earner-because of the sanctions. Nevertheless, most farmers have got rid of enough to cover their production costs. In any case, the loss may be a boon, since it is forcing Rhodesians to diversify their crops. Whatever their impact, sanctions have served only to make the whites more adamant...
Students at Notre Dame, for example, went back to school in September spoiling for a fight: they had decided that the behavioral restrictions traditionally imposed on them were too demeaning to tolerate any longer. But over the summer, President Theodore Hesburgh blandly did away with the bulk of the rules. The resulting mood of Notre Dame-new responsibility, dampening of protest, search for a more influential and meaningful student role in college affairs-is typical of most schools, barring Harvard's aberrations...
...rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...
...been pro-American. Here it was a question of character, personality and ability, and Washington left no doubt that Marcos was favored. In his ten months of command, Marcos has already defined and come to grips with the major problems outlined in his inaugural. Manila is overcentralized: the bulk of the nation's nascent industries (oil refineries, cement factories, textile mills, steel mills) are clustered around the city. Only half of the Philippines' 38,000 miles of roads are in drivable condition, and the Bureau of Public Works estimates that 5,400 miles more are needed to give the nation...
Tuberculosis and pneumonia still kill the bulk of Filipinos; teachers are in surplus in Manila, in short supply in the countryside. With 70% of the population engaged in subsistence, peasant-style farming, the average annual income is a scant $140 a year?far less than that of Japan and Formosa. Population growth is among the world's highest: Catholic-dominated Filipinos add 1,000,000 mouths a year to the rice bowl (3.2%). Simultaneously, the economic-growth rate is a minimal 4.2% . The rice yield is scandalously low. Of the world's top 20 major rice-producing nations, the Philippines...