Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced out of business in the not-too-distant-future...
Elusive Movements. During July, said Johnson, no fewer than 30,000 infiltrators made their way into South Viet Nam - a number "greater than at any other time in this war" and nearly enough to fill all the Communists' man power gaps. Intelligence sources also report that captured documents point to ward a "third-wave offensive," coming in the next few weeks. Unit troop movements have been particularly elusive, placing some enemy manpower far out side immediate fighting range; this could be in anticipation of an extended lull, or it could be simply for safe refitting and regrouping. In fact...
...Monday afternoon, with the convention officially only a few hours old, almost everyone seemed subconsciously to have realized that there wasn't enough of substance to do to fill the time, and the rest of the week was devoted to justifying one's presence...
Television, of course, suffers from the self-justification syndrome worse than any other group. While reporters have to fill a few pages a day with Convention material (which varies remarkably little from one newspaper to another), the network people--especially CBS and NBC--have committed themselves to feeding the monster as much as eight or nine hours a day with this stuff. This is a little like trying to write a full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting...
...entrances, basically because there was nothing else for them to do. By Monday, they had buttoned and pinned everyone who would be buttoned and pinned. After that, they served primarily as walking advertisements, especially the very attractive girls in Rocky dresses. But what does a walking advertisement do to fill up the hours...