Word: compounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lion's share of the blame for the Press's problems can be attributed to the less-than-firm hold that then-director Carroll had on the controls of the operation. And to compound the problem, Carroll and Hall--the man who supervises the administration of the Press along with ten other service organizations--had real conflicts in philosophy and personality. "We couldn't get on common philosophical wavelengths," Hall said repeatedly after Carroll's dismissal. And as the antagonism that existed between the two men grew worse and worse the inevitability that one of them would have...
...Bloodlines. What has made Secretariat a superhorse? His is a riches-to-riches story, a compound of good genes, good training and good luck. He has been particularly fortunate in his three human partners: Principal Owner Penny Tweedy, proprietress of The Meadow farm in Virginia, and her two French-Canadian colleagues, Trainer Lucien Laurin and Jockey Ron Turcotte (see box next page...
...American advance team has been working out arrangements for the liaison office for the past month, and has found the Chinese extraordinarily cooperative. Scores of Chinese workers labored round the clock to put the finishing touches on the new tiled-roof limestone compound that will house the mission (temporary headquarters have been set up in a diplomatic apartment building until the building is completed in early June). Peking permitted the U.S. to fly in two cargo planes from Guam loaded with furniture, cars, appliances and supplies-causing considerable surprise and some resentment among other members of the diplomatic community...
...twelve vertical bars, some short and some long. The long vertical bars represented good months and years, the short ones bad months and years. This was Lon Nol's chart, he explained. The marshal had visited him many times, and after the recent bombing of the palace compound, Lon Nol had rushed an aide to the astrologer for a fresh reading...
...1960s by Finance Minister K.T. Li. He pioneered the establishment of free-trade zones where foreign-owned factories can import raw materials and parts duty-free, assemble them into finished products and ship the products out as exports. Taiwan now has three such zones, each a kind of manufacturing compound. Together they will eventually employ some 90,000 Taiwanese workers in 150 enterprises. Foreign investors are also lured by cheap labor costs-one-third to one-fourth lower than in Japan-and velvet-glove treatment by the government. Foreign companies can buy factories built by the government on generous deferred...