Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil has made such promises before. But this time the U.S. will demand performance. "Disbursements," read a U.S. letter answering Dantas, "are expected to be phased in time, as required by the program, and parallel with the successful implementation of the measures described by you." And the U.S. added another hedge: except for an immediate $84 million balance-of-payments bailout, the full $398.5 million commitment is made only "on the assumption that external financial assistance will be successfully negotiated by June 1963 from other sources...
...Beeching's prescription for what ails the rails is to cut service drastically. He recommends the closing of 2,363 passenger stations, and the suspension of passenger service on 5,000 route miles, most of which are already served by parallel bus routes; there would be no trains left on the Isle of Wight or north of Inverness in Scotland. Sparing nothing, Beeching even wants to shut down as uneconomical the station that serves the Queen's Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Earmarked for scrapping are 1,200 of Britain's beloved "puffing billy" steam engines...
...Parallel sponsorship of a school, hospital and public works program. The AFL-CIO estimates that a directly financed federal undertaking to eliminate the backlog of necessary construction, would keep ten million men working for twenty years and would cost ten billion dollars annually...
...flight follows a great circle route, somewhat extended to keep over international waters. From Havana, the plane flies northeast over the Atlantic parallel to the U.S. coastline; roughly opposite Norfolk, Va., it zigs to a course between Greenland and Iceland to a point beyond the North Cape, then zags southward toward Murmansk-its first landfall after Havana. Flying time to Moscow: 13 hr. :55 min. Bucking headwinds in the other direction, the flight takes 18 hours, and even with a refueling stop at Murmansk the planes often reach Havana with a perilously low fuel reserve...
...been subrosa in an attempt to maintain some kind of symbolic recognition of the 1954 Geneva Treaty which ended the French-Indochinese war. Actually the treaty which America never signed but did agree to respect has been violated almost from its inception. Temporarily dividing Vietnam along the 17th parallel, it stipulated that elections for reunification should be held in 1956. Before that time no more than 675 foreign military personnel were to be permitted in either half of the country. Largely because of American intransigence, the reunification elections never took place, although the Communist regime in the North agreed...