Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steps "which will lead to our ultimate victory." The general's emphasis was on doing things gradually, and his plea was primarily directed toward Djakarta's restive students, who would have liked to see a bigger shake-up and who had recently begun clamoring for a cleanup of Parliament, for "social justice" and for elections...
...hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...
Respect from His Targets. Ridgeway was not exaggerating, but he had little hope that his indignant article would have any effect. The U.S. Public Health Service, he pointed out, lacked the necessary muscle to enforce a cleanup; New York and New Jersey, he argued, would not want to risk scaring off industry by enforcing the necessary antipollution controls. What was needed, he said, was a new federal agency reporting directly to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Moral Cleanup." That three regimes fell in less than two weeks underscored the fact that political independence has not turned out to be the panacea many Africans had dreamed it would be. Dahomey, the C.A.R. and Upper Volta are all pitifully poor, lack the mineral deposits and rich soil necessary to lift the standard of living much above the bare minimums their populations had endured for years. Unable to do much for the people, the politicians unwisely did what they could for themselves. Dahomey's first President built a $3,000,000 palace; the Upper Volta...
...austere French military traditions, the army commanders abhorred frivolity and waste. "France gives us money, and all we do is waste it," said Colonel Lamizane after ousting Yaméogo. In the Central African Republic, Colonel Bokassa used almost exactly the same words as he instituted a "moral cleanup" campaign for government officials: no bars, dance halls, riding in taxis. Also forbidden: tom-tom playing during working hours...