Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon then set up his own straw men, "the skeptics and the isolationists." When the first explorers set out from Europe toward the New World, he said disdainfully, "these men would have weighed the risks, and they would have stayed behind." When pioneers set out from the East Coast colonies into the interior, "these men would have counted the costs, and they would have stayed behind...
...making their predictions, some of the scientists harked back to two ear lier oil disasters - the wreck of the tanker Tampico off Baja California and the rupture of the Torrey Canyon off the English coast, both of which devastated marine life. While the Tampico carried partially refined and relatively volatile diesel oil, the oil seeping up into Santa Barbara Channel was unrefined crude, which is considerably less lethal. More over, the Santa Barbara oil spill was spread over a vast expanse of sea and did not wash up onto the beaches immediately. Much of it lingered on the waves before...
...Jordanian) were killed. Later a five-man Biafran tribunal that sits for security cases condemned the 18 prisoners to death by firing squad for helping Nigeria wage war. Once the sentences were announced, Ojukwu was besieged by clemency pleas from Italy, West Germany, Portugal, Gabon, the Ivory Coast and the Vatican. Some Italians proposed armed intervention to free...
...allowed to leave the country. Ojukwu, a Catholic himself, had been moved by Pope Paul's pleas for mercy, according to the Biafran government. But what obviously moved Biafra's leader most of all was the fact that three of the most earnest pleaders-Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Portugal-provide the staging areas from which arms or food supplies reach Biafra...
...housing corporation will be headed by Chairman Carter Burgess, former head of American Machine & Foundry, and President Ray Watt, a large West Coast builder. It aims to raise $50 million from large corporations and banks and a public sale of stock. Then it will invest most of the money in a number of partnerships of local builders and small investors. For every dollar that the corporation puts up, each local partnership will put up about three dollars. In addition, these partnerships will get FHA-insured loans under the National Housing Act for up to 90% of the costs of construction...