Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese troop commitment to Viet Nam-the country contributes more than $1,000,000 a year to Saigon. Sato promised to increase Japan's foreign aid by a full third, and to continue the Japanese-American security treaty beyond its 1970 expiration date. He repeatedly rejected the idea of a unilateral U.S. bombing pause over North Viet Nam without "reciprocal action" from Hanoi. To that extent, Sato paid more than he received in the way of U.S. concessions on the island territories...
Purely Domestic. Having sworn so long to defend the pound against even the idea of devaluation, Harold Wilson gave plenty of new ammunition to the Tories when he broke his word. Tory Leader Ted Heath greeted the news by saying, "I utterly condemn the government for devaluing the pound," but Quintin Hogg, the Tories' shadow Home Secretary, made a more telling thrust: "People are angry and humiliated by this decision," he said. "At last they will realize that the Labor government cannot govern with its financial policies...
...Gopen has personally established contacts with private training programs and 128 industries. And, at the same time, he has introduced a brilliant new idea in employment counseling. Instead of sitting in his office waiting for people to ask for information, Gopen goes out into the neighborhood in a panel truck covered with signs. These signs advertise job opportunities, training programs, and night school, as well as free legal advice and marriage counseling. Gopen says, "When a strange thing like this truck comes on the street, people just come to look. They feel much more at ease here when...
...people can call immediately to check job openings. In seventeen months of operation, Gopen's mobile employment center has over seven hundred part-time and four hundred full-time job placements to its credit. And poverty programs in New Haven and New York have begun to copy Gopen's idea...
...wording of the constitution calls for 50 per cent of the College to be present in order for the RUA to take a vote. But in heated debate yesterday, some Cliffies pressed for a 35 per cent quorum. They accused the RGA of trying to sabotage the town meeting idea by setting the quorum so high...