Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is only one significant political party in Tanganyika: the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU). In constitutional democracies of the West power structure is a horizontal spectrum of interests which overlap and conflict--rural and urban groups, business and labor, Republican and Democrat, numerous subdivisions. The decision making process is legislative, work- ing by compromise and accommodation of various interests, with certain common agreements as to the lengths that any majority coalition of interests can go in forcing its will on the minority...
Some, he found, do not adequately report either income or expenditures of local chapters. Some allow their locals to join community-chest or united-fund drives, while others forbid it. About 100 national and regional agencies overlap with 2,200 united-fund drives that divvy up the take among 28,500 agencies...
...programs calling for University undergraduates to work in Africa have been proposed in the last several weeks. The programs, whose goals overlap slightly, have frequently been confused by students interested in joining...
...area where this vertical shearing is sufficiently intense. Then he scans the data a second time to see if any air masses on the same level are moving rapidly past each other. If this is the case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full of wing-wracking CAT. The troubled air is usually only a few thousand feet thick, and it slopes upward, its high end toward a slow-moving air mass that is being jostled...