Word: n
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights was a crude intervention in Manila's domestic affairs. Local businessmen complain that their coconut oil is heavily taxed when it enters American ports, while a similar product from Malaysia is imported under low preferential tariffs. Meanwhile, the archipelago is awash with American pop culture. Rock 'n' roll is so ubiquitous that the radio stations have been ordered to play at least one Filipino-language song every hour...
...atmosphere for an amicable settlement was further soured when N & W raised the possibility of sabotage in the derailment of 55 of its coal cars in Bluefield...
Thus did a single 4,600-member local bring two-thirds of the nation's rail operations to a halt. And the disturbing fact remains that, unless the Administration can smooth over the bitter differences between B.R.A.C. and N&W, a replay of last week's turmoil on the rails remains a possibility...
...group has also already begun investigating the investment policies of Harvard and other universities, Preston N. Williams, professor of Theology and chairman of the Ethics Department, said yesterday...
...play, written by Nicholas H. Vanderbilt '80 with lyrics by Caroline N. Franklin '79, is about English spies in Constantinople at the turn of the century. Vanderbilt said yesterday. "It's a topic about which we knew absolutely nothing", he added...