Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present the Food and Drug Administration checks for pesticide residues only in foodstuffs crossing state boundaries. The few states which carry out their own checks have shown that pesticides can be far more dangerous on a local level. For this reason the government must create a wider network for pesticide sampling...
...goes beyond these impressive figures. The new plant will draw its crude from a new and vital petroleum artery: the Rhone River Valley pipeline, which provides the first link from the Mediterranean into oil-hungry south-central Europe and helps to meet the commercial threat of the Russian pipe network now reaching toward the West through the Iron Curtain countries...
...Code. But the book is less an ex pose than a primer on how a government goes about collecting information that other powers want to keep hidden. The key operative, known as a "case officer," is given the authority and funds to build up the necessary network of agents, cutouts, line crossers, drops and cover organizations. His assignment can generally be classified as either "clandestine" or "covert." A clandestine operation (the Bay of Pigs invasion, Russia's secret installation of missiles in Cuba) is one that is recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk...
...booming fish-meal industry, are also building a railroad in the backlands. In Honduras, Japan's Oki Electric Co. underbid such Western giants as A.T. & T. and Siemens to win the contract to build a new telephone system. Tokyo Shibaura Electric will soon install an educational television network in El Salvador, and Toyota and Nissan will start assembling cars in Venezuela by year...
California's Master Plan for State Education, which was approved by the Legislature in 1960, bears the stamp of Kerr's knack for mediation. Faced with the task of uniting California's vast network of universities, state and junior colleges, Kerr saw "that there would have to be an agreement sometime," and forged what has since been hailed as California's most alluring asset...