Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their men "black salaries"-10% to 20% above the legal limit-or lose them; last year 18 small Dutch textile mills closed for lack of workers. Belgian coal companies, which fly in weekly planeloads of Turkish miners, cry that Dutch and German labor poachers steal their recruits almost as fast as they arrive...
Barring a worldwide recession, labor shortages in these highly industrialized areas seem likely to increase, probably for a decade, despite automation. Western Europe's labor force is growing only half as fast as that of the U.S., and rising industrialization in southern Europe is expected to curb the flow of job seekers across international borders. In fact, before long, the tide may even reverse a bit. Industries around Milan and Turin have begun buying ads in Dutch and German newspapers offering good jobs at home to trained workers. This, of course, irks the Dutch and Germans, who paid...
...Japanese stake in Africa is still modest-only $7,000,000 in direct investments-and its sales to Africa of $608 million last year accounted for only 9% of Japan's total exports. Nevertheless, by combining courteous persistence, cut-rate prices, fat markups for local dealers and fast delivery, the Japanese are steadily firming their foothold. Japan's trade with Africa has nearly doubled in the past five years. Only in the former French colonies have the Japanese failed so far to make any real progress, primarily because of import restrictions favoring the French...
...like a horse than a cow. The animal the word describes was principally descended from the fiery Arabs imported to the New World by Cortes and his conquistadors, and the rigors of the prairies notably improved the breed. The mustangs of 1850 were short (14-15 hands), hardy and fast: the stronger stallions kept manadas of 20 or 30 mares, and to defend the mares from randy rivals they fought frightful battles to the death...
...whatever method they were broken, good mustangs made good riding horses-some of them, in fact, displayed undeniable genius. In the 1880s, the authors report, a horse in Texas was trained to run backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...