Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fledgling nation's 400 hospitals manned only by nurses and semi-trained "medical assist ants." There were no Congolese doctors to fill the gap: the first Congolese admitted to medical school in more than a half-century of Belgian rule have yet to finish their training...
...much movie there are bound to be a couple of good things. The gorgeously gory fracas at the finish is one of them, and John Wayne is the other. Nature clearly did not intend this man to be a director. But as Davy Crockett he demonstrates once again his superiority over the rest of Hollywood's strong, silent types in portraying the unaccommodated man-the natural ignobleman invested with the authority of size and the dignity of slow wits...
...offer stockholders. The Pennsylvania, taking a double blow from sagging steel shipments and a 12-day strike, lost $4.5 million in September for a nine-month deficit of $9.4 million v. $449,000 last year. Chairman James Symes held out no hope that the road could finish the year in the black. The rattling New Haven lost $1.8 million in September, running its nine-month losses to $11.4 million. The New York Central lost $2.7 million in September, putting it $2.5 million in the red for the first nine months of this year compared to a profit of $3.4 million...
...harried house hunters in 21 states across the southern tier of the U.S., the real estate ads seemed too good to be true: "Jim Walter Homes. Priced from $1,395. Nothing Down, 100% Financing!" But true they were. The houses were shell homes-frame dwellings completely finished on the outside, but with plumbing, heating, wiring and interior decorating left as unfinished business for the enterprising buyer. So enticing have they proved that, despite a general housing slump this year, the Jim Walter Corp., the biggest U.S. builder specializing in finish-your-own houses, last week reported earnings...
...published two novels, Unweave a Rainbow (dealing with "the disappearance of illusion in the process of arriving at maturity") and The Praying Mantis (a murder mystery centered on the anxieties of the killer). At present he is concluding a biography of Sir Walter Scott, which he hopes to finish some time next fall...