Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whacked the Democrats mercilessly for failure in world leadership. "There is no major area in the world," said he, "where the cause of freedom is not worse off today than it was four years ago. In Asia-Viet Nam, which is now our baby 100%, will be down the drain if present trends continue. In Africa-Zanzibar, like Cuba, is now a jumping-off place for further penetration of that great continent. In Latin America-Cuba is gone, Bolivia is going, Brazil is on the brink, not to mention the mess in Panama. In Europe-we gave the cold shoulder...
...Soviet youth are the first to grow up free of Stalinism. They are also the first generation to grow up with famine, poverty, and war. Impatient at the restrictions that remain to hamper life, they are nevertheless glad to be Soviet citizens in an age of promise. They can drain a glass of vodka with a single swallow. They read every new Russian novel from cover to cover, and they know (in translation) Hemingway and Salinger better than...
...after another bank that he had set up in Hong Kong suddenly went broke. Because the news came to San Francisco by steamship, Charlie knew nothing of it for three weeks, continued to send some $80,000 in clients' deposits to the defunct bank-and down the drain...
...year-old state oil company, called Y.P.F., has never been able to meet the country's demand. By 1958, Y.P.F. was producing only 35% of the country's needs, and the rest - roughly $250 million worth - had to be imported, which caused a severe drain on the nation's balance of payments. Determined to make Argentina self-sufficient, Frondizi ordered Y.P.F. to expand, and invited foreign oilmen to Argentina on taxfree, 20-to-40-year exploration and development contracts...
...children in 76 schools. The city has poured extra cash and supplies into 274 schools that have a concentration of problems. It has brought in hundreds of bilingual Puerto Rican teachers to ease Puerto Rican kids into New York life. And it has established 28 "600" schools that drain the worst delinquents away from the rest of the system while trying to handle them toughly but constructively...