Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distrusted the dour pragmatism of Boumediene, 42, who methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
...believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from heaven. But his military advisers resisted surrender; a group of fanatic staff officers made a futile attempt to seize the palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision in The Fall of Japan. Author Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics...
...costly improvements before it has any lasting value. While a few U.S. farmers say that they can grow everything from rice to cotton in the soil of Goias and Bahia, others have found their land nearly infertile. Since homesteads are not staked out and land records in Brazil are chaotic, ownership, moreover, is often uncertain and difficult to prove. Potential prospectors for mineral wealth have been dismayed by the discovery that anything they dig belongs, by law, to the government...
...past year the opposition to the club system has become more constructive. Its tone has changed from anti-Bicker to pro-social alternatives, From a blind, vindictive thrashing has come something that resembles a new system. At first, no doubt, it will be chaotic. In February there will be Bickering clubs, open clubs, University clubs, and the quad -- all claiming over 100 new members...
...help China's political cadres, most of whom were condemned and ostracized as revisionists during the Cultural Revolution, to regain the positions from which they were ousted. Since these officials ordinarily have personal contacts with the people and carry out orders from the top, their absence has rendered chaotic the day-to-day administration of public affairs. The army's new task, said Peking's People's Daily, is to help them to "educate and emancipate themselves...