Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the time of Caesar's Commentaries onward, military historians have tended to treat armed combat as a means to larger political ends or the chessboard on which generals tested strategy. There are, to be sure, shelves of How-I-Suffered-in-the-War stories. But Keegan wanted something more, a broad, systematic answer to the question that most bothered his Sandhurst students: "What is it like to be in a battle...
...hear Jerry Ford, the economy is moving onward and upward, recovering nicely (thanks to excellent Republican prescriptions) from deep recession and dire inflation, shaking off the effects of a little setback in the past few months. Says Ford: "We have had a pause. We are now coming out of the dip, and I believe that all, or practically all economists recognize that the economy is continuing to improve and will get better in this quarter...
...three times a week when food supplies for the bantustan run low. Education remains at a minimum, with a shortage of teachers in black schools that is not ameliorated by a ban on white teachers in those schools. Africans' progress through school is so restricted from elementary school onward that by the time they reach the university level they are outnumbered 28 to one, though they outnumber whites in the general population by five...
...will be more than merely a shrine to tragic heroes and lost causes. There will be many new exhibits, including ones depicting the position of blacks under slavery. They will be designed for a rising generation that is less interested in venerating the past than in moving onward. Yet, inevitably, what will now exist is a gleaming new shell for old values...
...that he owned most of the shares, leaving few in public hands. The sale netted J.B. $16.5 million, which helped finance his entry into the coal, oil and natural gas and real estate businesses. Nor has Fuqua finished. "I'm always chasing companies, dreaming," he says, moving steadily onward toward his first $100 million...