Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real sense, Nigeria's tribal antagonisms are the product of modernization's pressures. The Ibo's skills--and their ambition and industriousness--embittered the backward Hausas, particularly after Ibos captured most of the skilled jobs in the Northern Region. Hausa envy, inflamed by Ibo arrogance, goes a long way toward explaining the tribal explosion...
...year after the last U.S. troops pulled out of the Dominican Republic, the country's chief domestic product is still bolas-rumors. A few weeks ago they flew as thickly as fat Dominican mosquitoes when President Joaquin Balaguer sacked the top men in his air force, national police and military staff. Though Balaguer likes to juggle the top ranks occasionally as a regular matter, word of widespread plots and intrigue spread through Santo Domingo. When asked about it at a press conference, the sober little President allowed himself a rare smile. "In this country," he said, "there have been...
...means of proving it, he took on the defense of Ivan Weiss and Joseph Leis, two college dropouts charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell it. In court last week, Oteri could not get their names straight. But otherwise, he gave them a painstakingly prepared defense-the product of six months of research...
...Communist inefficiency. Aside from putting Red bosses in charge of the operation, Walter Ulbricht's government has refrained from tampering with Meissen's time-honored techniques. As a result, Meissen continues to demonstrate its 257-year-old knack for producing exquisite china. The translucent, ornately decorated product commands capitalist prices: a twelve-place dinner service in the famed blue and white "onion" pattern sells for around $900, and more elaborate patterns can run $4,500 and up. And even though few, if any, East Germans can afford to spend that kind of money, the demand for Meissen still...
...talking about. The occasion was the 74th annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, in Kansas City, Mo. With the fiery summer of 1967 still a fresh memory, the 1,200 assembled chiefs had little else but riots on their minds. Even the new product exhibits reflected it, with everything from a chemical that makes streets too slippery for running looters to armored personnel carriers bristling with gun ports, floodlights and tear-gas nozzles. At one afternoon-long meeting of the chiefs of the 21 largest cities, says San Francisco Chief Thom as Cahill, "we never mentioned...