Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress, writes Sinai, the West is wasting its time with economic aid, which is tantamount to "pouring oil into a motor with ruined cylinders." It is also unrealistic to expect them to be democratic. They are so far behind the West that it takes a strong man to pull them up. Such a leader is likely to be an "exceedingly unattractive specimen," obsessed with the idea of modernization and oblivious to the niceties of diplomacy. And since he has to take so many unpopular steps, he cannot take a chance at the polls, where he is almost certain...
...trees. New Yorkers receive 13 billion pounds of perishable and 8.5 billion pounds of non-perishable foods annually; their subway vending machines yield close to 2,000,000 pounds of pennies. Daily, they chomp 3,500,000 pounds of meat, swig 460,000 gallons of beer, pull 21 miles of dental floss past their molars, guzzle and flush 1 billion gallons of water. The municipal corporation alone owns a physical plant worth more than $15 billion. And every facility is inadequate. No adjective is enormous enough to suggest the concentration of people, commerce, religion, sport, finance, entertainment, education...
...armed with Polaris missiles and manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. Where the French nuclear force currently swings a total punch of three megatons, the MLF would carry 200. Though the U.S. would retain ultimate control of the MLF's nuclear trigger, participating nations would have more pull on it than under the French scheme. The French last week reiterated one of their many objections to MLF: it would start the Germans toward being a nuclear power. But how in the long run can Germany be kept from wanting the same nuclear status De Gaulle wants for France...
Whitten continues to vote against programs that would pull his district out of the mud, and the district continues to send him back to Washington. For in Whitten's district, only a few of the 59.1 per cent of the citizens who are Negroes can vote. And these are people whose poverty the government programs are designed to aid: their median income is $700 below the meager district-wide average...
...package-plan insurance sold in the U.S. Travelers' fastest-growing division now is group insurance, which the company got into in 1866 when it wrote a policy covering every member of the Baltimore fire department with $1,000 in life insurance. This year group will pull even in total premiums collected ($700 million) with casualty and fire insurance. The Travelers policy on 1.3 million U.S. railroad workers and their dependents is the largest group policy ever written on non-government employees but the company has also pushed successfully to reduce "groups," first to 25 people and then to four...