Word: inheritability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit side of the ledger, Thailand will inherit $80 million worth of American-built roads and ports, and the skills of 16,000 U.S.-trained mechanics, electricians and other workers. Now that the Yankees are moving out, the Thais are scouting for new markets for their own products. The Asian Development Bank study found that the war-induced financial windfall had weakened the nation's "incentive to export" its rich resources of teak, rubber, tin, rice and maize. Some Thais also argue that the war lowered their country's morals. G.I.s spent $22 million last year while...
...long run, Reich's book boils down to a conversation piece about categories I, II and III, and a simple assertion: the dinosaurs are perishing, and little furry animals will inherit the earth...
Despite Administration claims that the added force would be used for both campus investigations and antihijacking work, it was likely that most of the 1,000 new agents would actually become involved in anti-bookmaking investigations, which they would inherit under a provision of the omnibus crime bill now before Congress...
Rich and Sick. It is close to impossible for a man to enter a TV-dominated race for major office without money; he must earn it, inherit it, or acquire it through the donations of special interests. Without it, the door to the television studio closes in his face with the finality of a bank vault...
Cloudy Future. Colonsay is an anachronism, and anachronisms are nearly always costly. The owner of the island-the "laird" of the title-is an Englishman named Euan Howard, fourth Baron Strathcona. It was his mixed fortune to inherit the place in 1959 along with the responsibility to maintain at his own expense a broad range of social and economic services. At that time the island cost ? 10,000 a year to keep going. Through economies, the island produce, including cattle and sea kale, is now just about able to support the inhabitants. McPhee likes Strathcona (rather better than his tenants...