Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houphouët has accomplished the Ivory Coast's transformation by openly luring overseas capital and know-how to fill the vacuum left by the French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half of the Ivory Coast's salaried urban working force and an amazing 25% of the country...
...purpose. Among them are some rather familiar figures: military men, policemen and firemen who reach retirement potential at a relatively early age and apply their knowledge and skill to some new endeavor. They are being joined by a growing number of second-acters who are buoyed by an unprecedented level of savings from good salaries, by the rewards of profit-sharing plans and stock options, by early-retirement programs and by plain guts. They want to do a new thing and they have the means-material and spiritual...
...fingers, he said, suggest the possibility of an overactive thyroid with resulting inefficiency of the heart, and twitching of its upper chambers. A cold hand with coarse, puffy skin may be due to an underactive thyroid, and associated with fluid in the heart sac, a high blood-level of cholesterol, and even necrosis of part of the heart muscle from a coronary occlusion...
Boards cover every street-level window in the four-story building. Armed Pinkerton men guard every entrance. A 12-ft.-high fence has been thrown up around the parking lots. Two police cars stand by in case of trouble. Guards check the passes of everyone entering and leaving the building. No one goes out for lunch; sandwiches are brought in by an industrial caterer...
...widespread practice has hardly ever been mentioned in print. Nor did he himself have anything to say on the subject until the publication of a new biography of Cambridge Biographer Lytton Strachey gave him an opportunity. In a review of the book in the current Encounter, he gives high-level English homosexuality between the wars its first startling airing...