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Mead's citation read: "Through her lively and illuminating studies of faraway peoples she has brought us better understanding of ourselves and of the continuum of the human adventure...
...chief supervisors, or glavki, in the 34 industrial ministries in Moscow. The glavki will be limited to setting long-term investment and technological policies. They have proved adept at sabotaging previous reforms by constantly changing production targets, setting impractical prices and otherwise meddling in the operation of faraway factories. Presumably, though, the heads of the "production associations" will have more clout in confronting the ministries than the managers of individual plants did after the last reform, because they will speak for much bigger organizations and they are supposed to be executives who have had extensive management training...
...either side. Though the U.S. traditionally supplies arms to the Philippines, it has not increased its aid because of the rebellion. As for the insurgents, there is some evidence that their weapons are smuggled in by speedboats from the Malaysian state of Sabah (see map page 37), and that faraway Libya stands ready to finance fellow Moslems. But there has been no overt intervention, so far, on their behalf...
...threaten the EEC's export performance. In part, that is because about half of its members' trade is within the Community, where inflation runs at roughly the same rate from country to country. Moreover, proximity of markets provides a cost barrier against imports from faraway countries like the U.S. and Japan...
...Social Security benefit. Massive Federal aid helped stagnating elementary and secondary schools. The Model Cities program gave new hope to rotting urban centers. The list of achievements is lengthy. But in the end, another war overshadowed the War on Poverty, and the American napalm and bombs in a faraway land were reflected at home in the firebombed ghettos and the anguished college campuses...