Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Chicago has set up 100 city-owned and an undetermined number of privately owned vacant lots as "neighborhood farms"; it plans to equip neighborhood farmers with seeds and seedlings, a farm guide, tools, fertilizer, insecticide, fencing and, when necessary, water from nearby fire hydrants...
...Break bottlenecks in the labor market. Reducing unemployment at present is inflationary because many of the jobless are unskilled women, teen-agers and blacks who could not produce enough, at least initially, to justify their pay. The U.S. should fund a massive job-training program to equip these would-be workers with the skills to make them productive; Nixon's 1973 cutbacks in job-training programs were the worst sort of federal "economy." Beyond that, the U.S. labor market now does a haphazard job of matching workers' talents to available positions; employers and workers seek each other through state...
...government has budgeted $580 million in aid for the Cambodian government this year, most of it intended to equip the Lon Nol Army and keep its propeller driven warplanes aloft...
Part of the payment will certainly come from French arms. Already France has reportedly contracted to sell the Saudis 38 Mirage HiE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and an assortment of antitank missiles and amphibious equipment. In addition, the French are negotiating with the Saudis to equip the tanks with advanced laser aiming devices and infra-red detector systems -which would make them the most sophisticated tanks in the world...
...athwart the path of Vietnamese progress. Thieu has no awesome visions; his only desire is to remain in power and to continue rewarding the small group of landlords and government officials who support him. Thieu cannot survive without the massive amounts of American aid which finance his government and equip his army. But the United States is weary of war, weary of pouring money into the bottomless Vietnamese pit. Thieu must insure that the aid continues despite the stiffening American reluctance...