Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Complaints. Predictably, the aid effort has stirred trouble at home and abroad. Yaounde, capital of Cameroun. was the scene of a noisy argument last winter between government officials of the newly independent African nation and a group of visiting West German financial experts. Cameroun needed cash to balance the budget, and wanted money from Germany, which used to run the place as a colony before World War I. When the Germans refused, the Camerounians held them at the airport for several hours before allowing them to go home. Other African leaders, such as Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic, come...
Having made the discovery, Slack set out to profit from it. He assembled a five-man team, including a Jesuit priest-psychologist, and recruited 30 young toughs with police records ranging from burglary to rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy...
Slumps have hit the Tigers as hard as injuries. In spite of his 30 homeruns. Norm Cash in not last year's "Stormin' Norman," His .244 B.A. and 58 RBI don't approach his totals of last year at this time: .365.27 homers...
...success that Streetcorner Research has had in curbing delinquency stems mainly from the group's chief experimental activity: tape-recorded interviews with delinquents, who were paid hard cash to talk freely about their lives and their opinions and feelings regarding their homes, parents, friends, the police, the courts, and so forth. By talking about themselves, the boys began to think about themselves, about what they had done, and about what the future might be life for them. Over the months, their conversation typically passed through distinct stages, from apathy and despair to insight and transformation...
Five Days, Five Deaths. This worked well enough so long as the post-Suez crisis shipbuilding boom held up and eager purchasers were willing to make advance payment on ships, thereby assuring Schlieker a steady cash inflow. But lately, with a decline in demand, he has been obliged to agree to payment only after delivery. Result was that the cash collected by his shipyard dropped $14.5 million this year...