Word: program
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Bracero: Mexican citizen brought into the U.S. temporarily and usually in groups to add to the existing labor force at times of peak activity. The program, begun during World War II to relieve manpower shortages, was ended-over farmers' protests-in 1964. However, individuals known as "green-carders" (for the permits they hold) can work as aliens...
...white churches. The league intended to bar Forman from entering-despite the temple officials' stated willingness to hear him speak and to listen to his arguments. A showdown was avoided when the black leader failed to appear on schedule. Now the league is planning a nine-week camp program near Woodbourne, N.Y., to train members in such things as the use of karate, the handling of firearms, and the arts and techniques of street-corner debating...
...protest. Many Latin American nations are also unhappy with themselves and in search of new paths to progress. That combination of frustration, militancy and venturesomeness last week made news in five South American countries: - In Peru, the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado decreed a sweeping land-reform program that included the expropriating of some U.S. interests. It was one of the most drastic -and potentially effective-such reforms ever proclaimed in Latin America. >In Argentina, terrorists firebombed 13 supermarkets owned by the International Basic Economy Corporation, a company controlled by the Rockefeller family. The fires, which destroyed seven...
...reinvested in either private or government industrial projects. Some cynics, unable to quite believe in genuine reform emanating from a military regime, contend that Velasco aims only at boosting the prestige of his military government and breaking the rival power of the oligarchy. They also worry that his program is concerned more with property rights than with production and productivity...
...less than a year, and only 4.5% expect to stay for more than five years. The Cape is a society of "ten-percenters"-men who move from one space contractor to another seeking a 10% pay increase. Their insecurities are heightened by shifts in space policy. With the Apollo program drawing to its end, the space center has announced that 5,000 employees will be dropped from its payroll by next summer...