Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sick & Tired." By March 1, said McNamara, the U.S. had 215,000 men in South Viet Nam - 10,000 more than the previously announced total. This force includes 15% of all active Army and Marine Corps personnel, and it could grow to 350,000 "without call-up of reserves, generally extending terms of service, or withdrawal of units from Europe or Korea." If there were another emergency elsewhere in the world, he said, the U.S., by drawing on reserves and active units, could deploy an additional nine divisions (350,000 men) abroad within three months...
...they weren't just repeating cliches, some of the students admitted that although drugs allow the mind to escape its habitual cage of civilization, they trap it immediately into a new set of thinking patterns and customs; a new social order with its own stylized mores. These traditions usually grow around a small group of friends who are in the habit of smoking together. The same comments, the same gestures, the same conversations, are repeated within pot cliques and grow into a ritual built around the great...
...Less. One suggested way to realign the design would be for cities and suburbs to combine their spending and tax collecting, for the sake of efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states and localities could...
...Campus-Pacs as traffic builders. To receive a supply, college stores must advertise the packs in campus newspapers, also stock regular sizes of the samples. After the packs are introduced, surveys inevitably show a rise in student preferences for the sampled products. Harris' potential clientele will continue to grow, reach 7,000,000 students by 1970. And every year there is a completely new freshman class that can be tempted to use the products in the pack...
Sears expects to grow further in Latin America, in the next five years plans to open 50 new branches in Brazil alone. Smaller local retailers have two choices. They can complain about the competition, and languish. Or they can prosper by adopting Sears's fairly moderate prices and modern methods. Many have done just that...