Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-year-old, middle-income suburb of Ruskin Heights on the southeast edge of the city, few of the trim houses (average price $12,000) boasted cellars. Worried parents herded children toward the nearest neighbor with a basement, and as many as 40 people huddled together in these rare dugouts. Not everyone heard the warnings, and not everyone who heard heeded them. By 7 p.m., when the twister swirled over the state line with a roar like a highballing freight train, the 16-store Ruskin Heights shopping center was dotted with evening shoppers. The tornado ripped a path 70 miles...
...which last year broke industry tradition by using a woman in a liquor ad) urged readers: "When tensions build up-take time to relax." National Distillers adopted the slogan "Sip a Little Sunshine, Pardner" for its Old Sunny Brook Brand whisky, recently changed it to "Pour Yourself a Smile. Neighbor" when the Government frowned. The French National Association of Cognac Producers earlier ran a series of U.S. ads describing cognac as the "harbinger of good appetite, a gentle agent to relax tension, a pleasant inducer of euphoria." Though it got no formal Government complaints (the association is technically outside...
...that Iraqi troops would be at his disposal. That meant that if the Syrians threatened to use their 4,000 troops and 30 Czech tanks in Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also phoned King Saud...
Wild Oats. In Epworth. England, Farmers Jack and Les Keall completed seeding a half-acre strip before realizing that the land belonged to a neighbor...
...nation has the right climate for U.S. capital, it reaps a rich harvest. Canada, for example, has drawn a total of $6.5 billion in direct U.S. investment v. Mexico's $485 million largely because it has treated American investors far better than the U.S.'s southern neighbor. Capital-hungry countries can also set up central offices to encourage and facilitate private investment, as The Netherlands has done so successfully, organize development banks and investment corporations to encourage local capital to enter partnerships with U.S. investors. Even state socialism or nationalism need not be a deterrent to private investment...