Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once aligned with the U.S., marvelous things happened to Pakistan. Tanks, jet planes, new weapons, experts, food poured in. By last year, Pakistan had received $1.5 billion dollars in military aid and $3.5 billion in economic aid?about $50 per person. Relations reached their peak in 1961, when Ayub Khan rode a wave of popularity through the U.S. Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he said: "The only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with...
...member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President's invitation to be Minister of Public Works in the new Cabinet. "What in the world could I accomplish in the nine months before elections?" he asked. "I'm a serious person." Even the presidential campaign has ground to a halt. Under the seven-year-old Liberal-Conservative coalition, which alternates the presidency every four years, the Liberals are due for office next time around. Four months ago, however, the coalition candidate-Liberal Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo-withdrew his name after a series of noisy intraparty...
...bought their first car, or their first second car, or their first third car. Traffic engineers have been caught flat-tired. Great fleets of new cars will continue to cascade onto U.S. highways, but eventually, a point of saturation comes-probably at the ratio of one car for every person who can drive. Once the U.S. nears some realistic maximum volume of functioning cars on the road, growth of auto population will be tied to, and limited by the growth of human population. And building roads for this controlled total becomes a definable, if enormous...
Although courts readily enjoin deliberately noisy neighbors, loud dance halls and amusement parks, "serious" business is another matter. Unless caused by poor design, for example, ordinary industrial noise is protected on the ground that silencing it would cause undue losses. Even though the test is what a person of "ordinary sensibilities" can tolerate, the law does not automatically protect those who choose to live beside sources of foreseeable noise, however annoying...
...advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...