Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy in 1961 created the Agency for International Development (AID) as a kind of holding company for all foreign operations, and later put his budget director...
...learned," said Kraft, "is being able to pick a point in space, seek it out and find it. And it appears that we have a really good hack* on what we can do with Gemini 6 in getting the spacecraft in the right position to carry out the terminal phase of rendezvous...
Abolition & Prohibition. Today, unquestionably, the purposes of religion and government are more common than cross. Los Angeles Jesuit James Vizzard calls this new era of good feeling "a coalition of conscience and power." It marks a new phase in U.S. church-state relations, which has seen, as a National Council of Churches study committee put it last year, "both separation and interaction, harmony and tension...
...significant issues clouding the future impact of such events. One cannot help but believe that if the recent Norman Mailer performance is typical the teach-in movement has ceased to be constructive and has become instead just a particularly well-organized adolescent rebellion against the harsh realities of one phase of adult life...
...time Scenarist John Gay has maneuvered the entire cast into a pesthole known as Quicksand Bottoms, there is little suspense as to what direction the plot will take, and Hallelujah goes into its what-crazy-thing-can-we-do-next phase. Soon those drunken redskins are speeding toward the horizon in ten covered wagons filled with exploding bottles of French champagne-but the white man's magic has long since lost its sparkle...