Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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terized by low yield, high costs, poor management and ineffective incentive structure. Dumont concludes that Cuba's economic woes in 1963 were caused by "bad diffusion [information on] techniques of cultivation, insufficient effort, unsound organization of work, faulty pick up of produce, all of these on top of the harm done by the blockade." In 1964, Dumont claims, these problems were accelerated by an overcentralized economy run by a top heavy bureaucracy. As a result, he stresses the necessity of lower level autonomy or, in Karol's phrase, "grass-roots socialist democracy...
Unfortunately Laurence Darby will not reveal his pick in the Belmont- "It's against my policy, I can't have a track variant until the morning of the race, and who knows. It might rain."- but he does at least admit that there will be a lot of money involved- "I'm talking about five figures...
...only danger came in the seventh when Manley reached first on an error and advanced to third when a pick off threw hit his helmet. On the next pitch, Nickens pitched with the runner stealing home. Unable to reach the ball with his bat. UMass's Jack Conroy threw his body at Varney's legs, trying to knock over the 230-lb, catcher. Needless to say he failed, and Manley was out by several yards...
...steps the busi ness community would have taken would have been minuscule." So the word went out. When the laws tumbled down upon the state, there would be no standing in the door, no fire hoses or dogs. There were exceptions, such as Lester Maddox brandishing his pistol and pick handle in front of his fried chicken emporium, students rioting at the University of Georgia when the first black students were admitted. But Mayor Ivan Allen was the first Southern politician to testify in favor of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Atlanta became a weekend oasis...
Surprisingly Close. Whether or not it must bear that expense, U.S. industry will certainly pick up a major share of the antipollution bill. Increasingly, factories are being equipped with antipollution gear, ranging from costly precipitators and scrubbers to simple fish tanks, whose occupants serve as living testers of contaminants. Though corporations are often criticized for not doing enough, one recent estimate shows their outlay surprisingly high. McGraw-Hill economists calculate that U.S. industry's investment in antipollution work will be $3.64 billion this year, or just short of what it must spend annually for the next five years...