Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government's revenue from taxes is about $13 million. A breakdown of the budget would probably show 80 per cent going into salaries, and 20 per cent going to the foreign bank accounts of high Haitian officials. Duvalier did not invent the system, but he has perfected...
Education is sporadic and backward. At the most five to ten per cent of the people are literate. One teacher was proud of her class of 40 students because after a year of lessons each had learned to write his name...
Winking Lights. In the first two weeks after Tet, food prices rose sharply. Rice, for example, rose to 150 per lb. v. 70 pre-Tet; fish went from 370 to $1.44 per lb., and live chickens from $1.50 to $7.00 apiece. But farmers in the area were in such a rush to take advantage of the high prices that they hurried supplies into the city. Result: prices dipped downward again-though they still remain about 15% above pre-Tet levels. Despite the higher prices and some temporary shortages of vegetables and chicken, most Saigonese have continued to eat fairly well...
Eight Gigahertz. The M.I.T. team also had to design a new radar transmitter that would operate at eight gigahertz (pronounced with hard gs), which is 8 billion cycles per second. Radar beams of lower frequency would be significantly slowed down by electrons in the solar corona, making it difficult to separate out the delay actually caused by the sun's gravity. Corrections for Mercury's surface irregularity had to be calculated; round-trip time to a Mercurial valley would be longer than to a mountaintop. It was also essential for the researchers to screen out any extraneous radio...
...regulate. Its ultimate power, the license revocation, is rarely invoked. And when it proposes an industry rule, the commission invariably backs down before implementation. In 1963, it recommended a regulation codifying the National Association of Broadcasters' own gentleman's agreement of 18 minutes' maximum ad time per hour on radio, and 16 minutes on TV. But as soon as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee began to rumble about the rule, the FCC withdrew. And last May, the commission approved a license for a Virginia radio station that plans to devote up to 33 minutes...