Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mobutu personally ordained everything from the country's total nationalization program two years ago to such personal touches as dictating that Zaïreans drop their Christian names for African ones, address one another as "citizen" and "citizeness," and wear a form of national dress-batik sarongs for women, tunic suits for men. Absolute wealth has tended to follow absolute power; Mobutu-whose personal interests include property in Spain and Switzerland -has been widely described as one of the wealthiest...
GROWTH REGULATION. Growth regulators, those hormone-like substances that control the growth patterns of plants and tell them when to ripen, drop their fruit or prepare for the onset of winter, also have potential for increasing production. Thompson seedless grapes are routinely sprayed with a substance called gibberellic acid, which promotes cell growth and helps produce plumper fruit. A Monsanto product called Polaris is being used experimentally to increase sugar production: sprayed on fields, the chemical enhances the ripening of sugar canes. This, it is believed, boosts their sucrose content and may raise their yield of raw sugar...
...last week the Government gave up even trying. The Commerce Department did report on various classes of transactions for the first quarter. Its figures showed a swing in merchandise trade from a $2.2 billion surplus in the fourth quarter to a $1.6 billion deficit, caused by a slight drop in exports, an 11% rise in imports and an increase in capital flowing out of the country. But the department made no attempt to add up the pieces and calculate an overall deficit or surplus...
...developing. A growing number of companies-those producing such goods as chemicals, appliances and textiles, which are almost identical to those of their foreign competitors-are being hurt by the rising cost of their exports. Grundig AG, a consumer electronics maker already fighting cheap Japanese products, reports a drastic drop in sales to Britain and Italy. BASF, the giant chemicals producer, is paring prices and profit margins to hold its international markets...
...same procession of uniforms and frock coats, of English top hats alternating with plumed Bolivian helmets, as one saw in second-rate theaters, where triumphal marches of thirty men passed and re-passed in front of the same drop curtain, running when they were behind it, so as to be in time to re-enter the stage shouting for the fifth time: "Victory! Victory! Long Live the Regime! Long Live Liberty...