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In the Ministry of Education alone, 643 officials were fired, and 370 others were pried away from their bureaucratic desks and ordered out into the provinces to teach people how to read. In the Ministry of Agriculture, new Minister Hassan Arsanjani ordered a fresh topographic survey of government-owned lands...
The Urge to Purge. In analysis-conscious California, leading couch mechanics have denied that this smacks of exhibitionism, believe that it merely reflects a desire to glamorize basic functions. "The ancient Romans used to find the damnedest ways of getting pleasure," says one psychiatrist. "A good plumbing system was one...
It was at about this time that two important things happened to Ray: he was elected president of the Civil Engineers Association of Havana, and he became involved in anti-Batista activities. "There was no single reason. I had never been active before. I had just had enough of what...
Instead, Hoxha went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at...
Of course if "improving the Metropolitan highway situation" simply means building more highways, then any addition to the system constitutes progress. But to expand is not necessarily to improve, for the construction of new roads like the Inner Belt may well add to a city's transportation problems in the...