Word: projection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Hunger Action Project will sponsor a fast March 8 to raise money for agricultural equipment, medicine, and health supplies for the Cape Verde Islands, an archipelago 300 miles off West Africa...
...Telephone and Electronics. Billions more in long-term contracts, covering such things as housing and highway construction and port development, remain still to be fulfilled by large corporations, including Ford and AT&T. Few if any civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like housing, hospitals and schools will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies do not seem to know what to do. Says a Commerce Department staffer in Washington: "We have hundreds of companies that are very worried about this. They keep phoning up and asking...
...Szilard and Wigner he agreed to write a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the possibility that the Nazis might try to make an atomic bomb. That letter is popularly credited (though its precise effect is unclear) with helping to persuade Roosevelt to order up the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic weapons...
...heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...
They were mostly working-class people, and many of them lived in the Jefferson Park Housing Project. They had to live with the knowledge that large numbers of physicians lived and practiced in Cambridge, and they did not have access to those doctors and their isolated corner of the city was medically underserved...