Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latest In Place. The accommodation has seemed to work very well. In the Ivory Coast's lush green countryside, agricultural production has jumped 50%, making the country the world's third largest producer of coffee, fourth largest of cocoa and fifth largest of pineapple. At the same time, the rate of new local and foreign business investment (Renault, Esso, Unilever) has more than doubled to $100 million yearly. Last week businessmen and government officials from a dozen African countries rounded off a ten-day technical exposition sponsored by France, which picked the sophisticated capital of Abidjan...
Champagne for Opponents. Unlike his counterparts in other African countries who tend to denounce all forms of foreign influence, Houphouët has accomplished the Ivory Coast's transformation by openly luring overseas capital and know-how to fill the vacuum left by the French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half...
...channeling 25% of the country's $263 million budget into education (v. only 10% for the army) and setting up 50 technical institutes and training schools. As for such neighbors as Togo, Dahomey, Niger and Upper Volta, he says: "I'm not interested in making the Ivory Coast an oasis of prosperity in the middle of a desert of misery. Sooner or later, my neighbors' difficulties will create trouble for me. And it's the desert that always engulfs the oasis." To help keep the desert away, Houphouët has organized and largely bankrolled...
...began a series of legal moves to forbid the interstate shipment of carbon tet for retail trade. If the FDA's drive succeeds, it will be up to the individual states to stop intrastate sales of a useful but dangerous chemical. One straw in the wind: the U.S. Coast Guard recently withdrew approval of carbon tet fire extinguishers on boats...
...those who were old enough to job-hunt then, the Depression '30s were a time nobody loved. But for young Americans today, the period has become a nostalgic treasure trove. Stores from coast to coast are advertising ruffles and the Harlow look; the late show provides a touchstone by rerunning the movie classics; and Bonnie and Clyde is mandatory in all extracurricular undergraduate courses. But as is often the case with trends, artists have been well in the vanguard of popular taste, and some of the most gifted have been on a '30s kick for years (see color...