Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalemate? One big factor was the U.S.'s new relationships with Moscow and Peking, which no longer find it in their interests to duel with Washington over a scrap of Southeast Asian rice land. Nixon believes that his decision to resume full-scale bombing of North Viet Nam and mine its harbors was also "very, very important." It is hard to measure how badly Hanoi has been hurt by these measures. But it seems undeniable that the failure of Moscow and Peking to challenge Nixon's moves was a signal that Hanoi could not ignore...
...been dead. In many, a sullen kind of privatism has replaced the formerly furious idealism. In a sense, the war has ended by producing a basically antipolitical generation. Observes Political Scientist Richard Young: "More and more on the campuses, you see a kind of I'm-going-to-get-mine style that's quite different from several years ago. The cynicism is amazing...
...executives of most companies have simply written off the value of their seized assets. Kennecott Copper Corp., however, has come up with a third strategy to recover the losses it sustained when the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens last year seized its El Teniente mine, near Santiago. In a move of significance to all multinationals operating in mineral-rich but money-poor countries, the company is trying to throw up what amounts to an international legal blockade of Chile's copper shipments...
...grandchildren, we arranged to keep in touch. Since then I've gone to her apartment several times a year for lunch or dinner and she's eaten with me a couple of times at Radcliffe. She has introduced me to several of her friends and has met some of mine, whom she invariably asks about whenever...
...heard no more about TM until this fall, when I went to an introductory lecture at Philips Brooks House (PBH) A friend of mine was going and I had nothing better to do. While I was vaguely curious about TM secretly I knew that meditation just wasn't for me. But the lecture surprised me. The man and woman talking were too practical for my concept of meditation and I found myself intellectually agreeing with most of what they said...