Word: equiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When De Gaulle's government took over in France and cast about for ways to restore French economic grandeur, one of its major moves was to model its depreciation allowances after the Germans. For new equipment with a life of three years, a French firm is allowed 50% first-year tax write-off, and for equipment to be depreciated over ten years or longer, it can write off no less than 25%. The idea, French experts happily note, almost compels industry to re-equip and modernize itself rapidly. Sweden for a time allowed 100% first-year write-offs...
Given the stubborn resistance of caste to the most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called at the U.S. embassy to borrow a sample broom to be used in inviting bids from manufacturers...
...banana peel on the blue ocean swell of the Caribbean. The democratic Equatori-ans are engaged in their annual ritual revolution, and two local swindlers named Lopez and Pardo dread the rising "reform" dictator. Lopez mulcts tourists and gets a kickback from the police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly of Lopez, Pardo and nightclub floozies scarcely...
Designed to test the concept of a "remote" defense of the Canal Zone, under which outside troops are rushed in to counter surprise attack, the maneuver showed that Latin America has used its $493 million in U.S. military aid since 1950 to train and equip at least the beginnings of a tough, expert force that can move fast. The performance of the Latin soldiers and flyers was uniformly good, and the Brazilians were so impressive that 82nd Airborne officers talked of picking up some of their techniques. This week, the U.S. will top off Operation Banyan with "Operation Big Slam...
...washer, called the Aseptic Air System, is relatively inexpensive. Its inventors, a physicist and a well-to-do gadgeteer, can equip the average 1,000-sq.-ft. operating room for as little...