Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hinted at a reversal of the home-building policy. Nikita's Utopian blue print suggested that the imminent transition from socialism to Communism would make privately owned homes unnecessary. Another reason for the switch: the regime has been increasingly plagued by embezzling public servants who found a convenient outlet for spending their hoarded rubles on town houses and country dachas...
Exports: Coffee. Per capita income: $35-50. U.S. aid: $7,500,000. Both countries are heavily overpopulated, heavily dependent on foreign aid. Rwanda looks to neighboring Uganda for trade outlet. Rwanda is republic with moderate austerity regime. Burundi is monarchy with moderate regime under merry Mwami (King) Mwambutsa...
Sudden Comfort. Despite his professed disinterest in politics, Idemitsu owes his success largely to a canny ability to ride the political tides. He started with one small retail oil outlet in 1911 and steadily expanded across Japan. Then he followed the invading Japanese army into China in the 19305, pushing out U.S. and British oil companies. It was a wry joke among Japanese soldiers that whenever they captured a Chinese town, the first Japanese civilians to arrive were the "comfort girls"-and an Idemitsu...
...Outlet. Work like Denis Mitchell's is the general aim of ETV producers, and not the exception, as it is on ABC, NBC and CBS. Not classroom television, N.E.T. programs range all over the spectrum of interest from the natural sciences to drama and jazz. And none of the 64 stations broadcasts a single commercial...
...weld-awkwardly dubbed the News-Call Bulletin-might cure a combined deficit approaching $2,000,000 a year. What Hearst really wanted was to take over its smaller rival; the union was approved only after Scripps-Howard, anxious to hang onto its only West Coast newspaper (its next westernmost outlet is the Albuquerque, N.M. Tribune), paid $500,000 for the right to run the news side of the joint operation, leaving business affairs to Hearst...