Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thais, who are nervous at the prospect of a U.S. stand-down in Southeast Asia, are as alarmed as Laos over the Chinese road work. Officials in Bangkok claim that China may be planning an armed invasion of northern Thailand, where government forces have been having recurring troubles with the Meo tribesmen since 1967. This is probably no more than a fanciful worry on the part of the Thais. A more likely explanation for the road may be that China is planning to step up aid to the Laotian rebels. During the National Day speeches in Peking last October, Laos...
...required to be creative, but merely to read a 25-minute presentation prepared by the company. Management's philosophy is that anybody who can read can sell. Success is founded on making plenty of presentations; salesmen make as many as a dozen brief calls for each prospect who is willing to listen to a presentation. But Penn Life has calculated that one out of three who listen will...
...plus gambling dealers into a mob-run union. Using the threat of a strike that could cripple the gambling hotels, the gangsters could persuade the owners to sign lucrative contracts for food, liquor and vending machines from firms owned by Cosa Nostra An equally distasteful prospect for casino owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only to the mobsters. If they cheated the players, or skimmed small amounts for themselves, the dealers could rely on protection from the union with its power to call a walkout. Naturally, the mob would take a healthy cut from...
However unlikely that prospect, the activity of the exiles has worried Tito. In retaliation, he has begun slipping paid informants and assassins across the border with groups of ordinary workers who arrive daily in major West German cities. Western experts estimate that some 1,000 U.D.B.A. informants are keeping an eye on Yugoslav workers, and that about 100 others are in West Germany to handle more sensitive assignments. Whatever their number, the agents work efficiently. In Munich alone during the past year, there have been six unsolved Yugoslav murders and several mysterious disappearances...
...Harvard loses, it will enter the Yale game with a 3-5 record two straight defeats, and the prospect of a desperate fight to avoid a tie for seventh place, And if Brown loses, the Bruins will face a final game with Columbia for the usual stakes-possession of the Ivy League cellar...