Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infiltration data. "They are making hard assumptions based on soft estimates," said one officer. During the first six months of 1969, said the Pentagon, some 100,000 North Vietnamese troops joined enemy units in the South, more than replacing the 94,000 Communists killed during the same period. The Pentagon refused to release the figures for July and August, which reportedly show a 50% decrease in Southbound troop movements. It did note, however, that even so dramatic a decline could be explained by record monsoons in Laos, which have turned the infiltration routes of the Ho Chi Minh Trail into...
...testimony from the battlefield was that the Communists still preferred shooting to talking. During the last weekly reporting period in late August, U.S. battle deaths totaled 190-somewhat fewer than the 244 killed during the week of the last "high point" earlier in the month. Enemy losses were put at 2,757. Last week U.S. Marines and infantrymen engaged in a number of sharp fire fights, most notably in the rolling hills near Danang and north of Saigon...
Instead, in the bloodiest single period of the war, Anya Nya rebels attacked government forces, brutally mutilating an Arab sergeant at Juba in the process. The Arab soldiers went berserk, killing hundreds of blacks and burning countless huts...
...state of dependence, too long in terms of a sense of place that one has personally striven for and won. To be adolescent means that one has reached (and even passed) the age of puberty, but must nevertheless postpone full adulthood till long beyond what any other period in history has ever considered reasonable. Students want, essentially, those group therapeutic experiences that will help them feel they have at long last come of age." Because providing those experiences is not the chief function of most educational institutions, "colleges must inevitably disappoint the students where their greatest need lies. Campus rebellion...
...anything, that is an understatement. Through a combination of cost cutting, rate in creases and shrewdly timed expansion, Barren has managed to double the company's profits from $6.6 million in 1966 to $12.2 million last year. In the same period, revenues rose only 18% to $231 million. The chain, which owns, manages or fran chises 67 hotels and inns in 56 U.S. cities, currently has an oc cupancy rate 10% above the industry-wide average of 61%. More remarkable, that occupancy level has been reached despite a 21% advance in Hilton's average room rate from...