Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most African nations have achieved their independence only to find themselves too broke to enjoy it. Not Zambia, the copper-rich state that changed its name from Northern Rhodesia at independence ceremonies last year. Riding a world copper boom that has brought $400 million into the country in the past year alone, President Kenneth Kaunda is in the enviable position of having more money than can be spent...
...lives with his wife Betty and their nine children in the former British Governor's residence, a vast colonial mansion whose 400-acre lawn is dotted with flowering gardens, a swimming pool and a duck pond. He rarely has time to enjoy it. An indefatigable worker, he is so busy that his appointment calendar is booked three weeks in advance and he often receives visitors at 7 a.m. over breakfast or 11 p.m. over supper. To remind his people that "the good things of life come only with hard labor," Kaunda and his ministers regularly show up wielding shovels...
...direct, market-price purchases of commodities for the Food for Peace Program by the Government-rather than siphoning off surplus stocks-and the realistic prospect of greatly increased demand for U.S. farm products around the world, should in time assure farmers a better standard of living than they now enjoy, and a more rewarding way of life than growing-or not growing-food for Washington...
...Washington is behind Park's Japan policy; things were not helped by recent announcement of U.S. plans to increase procurement in Japan of military items needed in Viet Nam and readily available in Korea. "While Korean soldiers are to share their blood in Viet Nam, Japan is to enjoy the economic windfall," muttered a Seoul newspaper...
...breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet...