Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent months, sabotaged the Soviet-built port of Hodeida, and frequently cut the main roads linking the cities. They have gunned down dozens of Egyptians from ambush and blown their Jeeps to bits with mines. So strong is the anti-Egyptian feeling that emissaries sent with bundles of cash to buy the loyalty of dissident chieftains have been murdered and the money returned-the latter a most unusual occurrence in the Middle East...
...short, 1966, confirmed that Harvard would continue to drive for more funds on all fronts, it also meant that the University had accepted the implications of present growth: that is, ever increasing activity in all areas, paralleled by larger needs for current and capital cash, and gradual increases in the numbers of Faculty members and students. Over the long run, growth begets more growth...
Currently living on a month-to-month basis, the SST must get some $250 million in new funds if construction is to begin this summer. And rather than see their delivery dates postponed well beyond 1974, the airlines are likely to come through with the cash. As it is, the Administration ploy is no great surprise. New Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd, whose department will take over the SST, was not exactly speaking sotto voce last month when he told Senators at his confirmation hearings that "I would like to see private enterprise put up as much money...
...holding more complete hearings. Antitrust Chief Donald F. Turner is arguing that the merger may be harmful on at least two grounds: 1) that ITT once intended to create a fourth television network and is buying up the third instead, and 2) that ITT anticipates a tidy cash flow from ABC. ABC lawyers contend that a reverse flow will be more likely: at least $140 million will have to be poured into the network in order to make it competitive in such areas as color telecasting and sports and news coverage...
...host of other problems, from industrial inefficiency to the technology gap. In freeing gold and the franc, De Gaulle also undercut the deeply ingrained instinct that has made France a nation of hoarders and smugglers. Restrictions on money leaving the country had sharpened the Gallic impulse to spirit cash into secret Swiss bank accounts or bury gold in gardens and mattresses. Les hirondelles, the friendly black marketeers, could scarcely believe what happened last week: at a stroke, De Gaulle had all but wiped them...