Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunes at her expense. Her riposte does little to blunt the thrust of Nunn's original accusation, for her family's seignorial attitude toward the people in its domain is evidence enough of its political power. "These are my folks around here," says Mrs. Howell. "They need help." The people of Breathitt repaid such sentiments last month by flocking to Mrs. Howell's side at a public hearing held by OEO to investigate Nunn's charges against her. Howell supporters turned out in such force that Lynn Frazer, the state economic-opportunity director, walked out, claiming...
...tough if it requires." The premier, a quiet man whom followers refer to as "The Prof" may have to get tough. Living costs and unemployment are spiraling, not to mention the birthrate. Worst of all, Nkrumah's rule left Ghana with $1.45 billion in debts and badly in need of foreign investment...
...with a computerized dialing code. Matusow advises pasting stamps on sideways so that the scanner cannot read the magnetized strips that differentiate between values of stamps. In persuading telephone operators to handle calls personally, he suggests saying: "I'm sorry, operator, but I'm blind and do need your assistance." That ploy "is bound to make her feel extremely guilty, and will make it easier for the next caller who wants her to make the connection...
...inland U.S. river port and unloaded at another-which could be on a U.S. river system or in Europe or Asia. The arrangement is an outgrowth of the trend toward shipping goods overseas in factory-loaded containers. It overcomes several drawbacks inherent in containers, however, notably their need for costly special dock facilities...
Codified Concierges. But Gramont, a French count by birth and a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist by trade (via Yale and the New York Herald Tribune), is really offering a well-packaged literary supermarket. His hope, clearly, is that readers in need of predigested fact and opinion should search no farther. Furnished with a vast array of knowledge-much of it the result of his French secondary-school education -he includes generous helpings of statistics, history, philosophy and lore...