Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations receiving help under the U.S. foreign aid program, none is so exasperating as Indonesia. Despite $881 million in U.S. handouts since 1946, Indonesia is an economic shambles. Factories lie idle for lack of spare parts, roads go unrepaired, and harbors clog with silt. "In Indonesia," the saying goes, "chaos is organized." Only Communist-coddling President Sukarno's 400,000-man military force seems to thrive...
There is another, more serious, source of river poisoning. The Metropolitan Distric Commission operates two sewage trunk lines that lie at the bottom of the Charles. These pipes are supposed to carry waste from Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, and parts of Boston to a treatment plant in Boston Harbor. But the trunk lines now operating are too small to handle all of the flow. So the MDC is forced to release the excess volume into the Charles through a number of overflow valves...
Most cities in a similar fix would have settled for moving their costly harbor works, but Duisburg found an ingenious way out. Under the city-harbor and all-lie three rich seams of coal. Engineers figured that if this coal was extracted properly, the ground above would settle evenly, and the whole harbor region could be lowered by as much as 7.5 ft., permitting the lowered Rhine to fill the harbor once more. There was $150 million worth of coal below the city, and it could be sold to pay for most of the surface damage caused by the settling...
...that this had to happen to children, but it is war; and when the Negroes encourage their own children to lie in front of cement trucks, disregarding the laws of safety just to get arrested, it doesn't appear they care too much whether the children are killed...
Other unknowns lie in wait. If a new rocket engine fails to deliver a few percent of its planned thrust, the payload that it lofts into space must be lightened. Since every ounce is calculated with exquisite care, this means eliminating some piece of equipment, and little can be jettisoned without profound changes in the whole mission...