Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yellow Rolls-Royce. The inauguration of the ADB took place one week after the start of the first Asian Inter national Trade Fair in Bangkok. Set up by the Thais, but nursed to fruition by the same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
...housing dilemma. Specific results from them have not been announced, though it is known that the possibility of the universities' sponsoring non-university housing projects was under discussion. The question is how far both Harvard and M.I.T. will go in seeing these and other necessary housing proposals to fruition...
...simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...
...plan to bring Dudley House into the Yard is an old one. The idea was conceived in 1958 with the initiation of the $82.5 million Program for Harvard College. The construction of Holyoke Center has allowed the plans to come to fruition by providing new space for Lehman's present occupants, the University Comptroller's Office...
Historic Moment. The bank is not only Asia's first common banking venture, but one of the very few joint ventures of any kind brought to fruition in Asian history. Burma's U Nyun, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, sensed a historic moment as he troweled cement onto the cornerstone of what will become a ten-story headquarters building. "When historians look back from the future on this structure-to-be," he said, "they will say that it was the new financial temple of Asia." Eugene Black, former World...