Word: project
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that simple. Human rights have an economic component too: the right to food, shelter and medical care. We understand that for a poor country, trying to feed everybody is a human rights problem as well. So if we get a proposed loan for a big water project, and it turns out that 99% of the water is going to be used for a private industry in a country with serious human rights problems, that would get a negative vote. But if the water is going to a slum area, where people now have to walk two miles to carry water...
...tired of vegetating down in Florida. He wants to make his comeback by manufacturing "the Betsy," a sort of Model T cum Volkswagen for the '70s, ecologically sound, energy conserving, sensible. He hires a stud race-car driver, one Angelo Perino (Tommy Lee Jones), to honcho the project back at the factory, sneaking it by Loren Hardeman III, the old man's grandson (Robert Duvall), who loves cars less than the balance sheet, his mistress more than his wife, and is an all-around blue meanie...
Members of the Radcliffe Class of '47 initiated the project, which the Class chairman Grace L. Huffaker '47 yesterday described as a method of providing women with first-hand work experience that will help them select suitable professions...
...former boss. According to Elko's account, Flood received $100,000 in cash and bank stock from the schools and other organizations that obtained federal financing with his help. ¶Flood's role in obtaining congressional approval in 1973 of $10 million for a livestock development project in the Bahamas, a project that was approved over the strong objection of the Agency for International Development. According to Elko, AID officials' misgivings were silenced when Elko suggested that the agency's appropriation might otherwise be "stymied" by Flood in Congress. But the agency did manage to block...
...years after General Electric became the first company to acquire a computer, these versatile machines have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be buried under the blizzard of 35 billion checks that rain down on them annually, and economists trying to project the growth of the nation's $2 trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo jet, pay for it by credit card, and enable the plane itself to fly. In many industries, computers design...