Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gamble That Paid. Carter has diversified all through electronics, and has concentrated on the civilian market instead of defense business because he does not like the Pentagon's renegotiation of contracts. The best thing that happened to Carter was the arrival in 1957 of eight bright young scientists from the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, led by Dr. Robert Noyce, who walked in the door with the idea of making transistors of silicon. Fairchild gambled $7,000,000 on the idea and won. Noyce, now 38, is head of the Semiconductor Division, which contributes more than 50% of Fairchild...
Double Standard. This, declared Johnson, "is the terrible scarred face of the war, too seldom seen and too little understood." Moreover, he warned, "if the takeover of Viet Nam can be achieved by a highly organized Communist force employing violence against a civilian population, it can be achieved in another country, at another time, with an even greater cost to freedom. If this 'war of liberation' triumphs, who will be 'liberated' next...
...more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission to kill a major military leader, but did kill five soldiers and seven civilian passersby, and wounded more than 60 others...
Rotberg predicted that the military leaders will soon return power to civilian hands. Until that time, he asserted, "the cream of Ghanian intellectual society will be happy to be used by the military" to keep the government running smoothly...
...search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...