Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugee camps and talks with hundreds of peasants and government officials. "Government jobs," said Kennedy, "are bought and paid for by people seeking a return on their investments. Police accept bribes. Officials and their wives run operations in the black market. Army vehicles are used for private purposes. Supplies disappear and show up in the bootleg stores on the street...
...problem of national unity, and so Canadians will ascribe his failure to bring about great improvements to his dismal television image, or to his age. But the real source of his failure is the enormous difficulty of the problem itself. It is not one that will suddenly disappear through sentimental reconciliation amid the glitter of a World's Fair, or through the charisma of a Canadian Kennedy...
...deficits dilemma. No matter how it tinkers with the golden rules, it ultimately will have to achieve what the bankers call equilibrium-which is to say, a surplus or deficit of not much more than $1 billion yearly. As soon as it does that, the gold problem will disappear. "Then," says Germany's top banker, Emminger, "the U.S. can do whatever it wishes about the gold price. Then everyone, or almost everyone, will be quite content to hold onto his dollars. There is no advantage in holding onto the metal once you become convinced that the dollar will truly...
...barns disappear, big lumber companies are rough-sawing plywood and mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...
March President Johnson, in an effort to cut spending "in distant lands," proposes state-hood for South Vietnam. Four Southeast Asian Chiefs of state protest vigorously. In separate incidents, all disappear while swimming...