Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualties are expected to go still higher on the basis of incomplete reports from the U. S. Command. Communications with the base were spotty more than 24 hours after the North Vietnams attack, apparently because of damage to the control bunker...
...hand; there was no bulldozer work. In clear areas, a trellis of bamboo branches had been carefully woven together and planted with live foliage so that you could not see the path from above. Every so often, just on the edge of the road, there was a checkpoint bunker that could hold two or three people. Farther apart, there were lots of depots slightly off the main trail. They were numbered-we saw Nos. 16 through 19 on our walk-and were indicated on the path by crosses carved into the bark of a tree and painted...
...system goes by the cumbersome name of NASDAQ, for National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotations. It was developed at a cost of $23 million by Bunker-Ramo Corp., and gives instant readings on 2,374 of the most actively traded stocks on the over-the-counter market. Another 200 will be added this month, and eventually as many as 20,000 of the approximately 50,000 over-the-counter stocks will be included. At present, NASDAQ lists only companies that have at least $1,000,000 in assets, 500 stockholders and a stock that sells for $3 a share...
After his last session with Vien & Co., Abrams and white-haired U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker swept into President Thieu's Saigon Palace ?brushing past a phalanx of startled Vietnamese officials who had been waiting to offer the President Tet holiday greetings. Not until four days later, when they were summoned to an urgent briefing at MACV headquarters in Saigon, did reporters have any idea that something was afoot...
...Command, Viet Nam), next to Saigon's airport. He is at work at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week. In his map-lined office he dips regularly into one of the cigar humidors that, surround him. He confers three or four times a week with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, three times with General Cao Van Vien, the South Vietnamese chief of staff, and even more often with his intelligence officer. Whenever he can, he choppers to the field and once a month flies to Bangkok to visit his wife...