Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achievement should be sought out and admitted without regard for any other criteria save those indicative of emotional maturity and good character. All other applicants for admission should be considered in the light of the fact that Yale is first and foremost an intellectual enterprise." A bit to the northeast, women also got their due-or something close to it. When the Harvard Corporation in 1892 approved the launching of Radcliffe College, it cautiously raised an academic fence between the female annex and the Harvard Yard by resolving that "no Harvard A.B. be given to women." But creeping feminism...
...meetings with Kennedy he found sympathetic understanding for his political problems, and a willingness to help with Brazil's economic difficulties. The day Goulart arrived, Alliance officials agreed to a rapid, no-strings-attached infusion of $144 million to help Brazil's sorely underdeveloped and Communist-ridden northeast-food, water, electricity and housing at the village level. "He came up here with the objective of getting immediate aid with no, or minimal strings," said a U.S. official. "He's going home with the goodies." In turn, Goulart sought to clear up the bedeviling issue of utility company...
...seem a wholly unworthy investment to the Alliance for Progress. Where the notions came from it is easy to see. The wire services in particular have made far too much of a Governor's expropriation of a branch of the IT & T; they have said that Brazil's Northeast is on the brink of revolution. A recent article in the New Republic, besides stating that former President Kubtischek had swindled Brazil out of several million dollars, called its present and potential leaders fools, knaves, and monomaniacs. All this has understandably made U.S. businessmen suspicious and Brazilian officials extremely angry...
LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...
...tremendously poor Northeast as well, he pointed out, his Administration found a long-range economic program. Essentially, it replaced "mere palliatives" of temporary assistance with a new regional agency to cope with strikingly low income and perennial drought...