Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ethnic Interest. Somalia's interest in Djibouti is primarily ethnic, for the majority Issa tribe in the territory is Somali-speaking. Ethiopia's stake is economic: 60% of its foreign trade moves via Djibouti's deepwater port; a rickety, 60-year-old railroad connects it with Addis Ababa. Both countries deny any annexation designs, but neither trusts the other's disclaimers. Nor do Djibouti's new rulers. Says Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some...
...heroic figures is certain to tantalize imaginative minds forever. Ray grew up in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., in an impoverished, quarreling family that in his early years struggled to survive. His father at times worked at local hauling jobs with a pickup truck, and as a railroad hand. He had also spent two years in prison for larceny. Ray turned to crime, following the precedent of his father, an uncle and a brother. His parents split in 1952, after his mother had become an alcoholic...
...best-remembered hero was Colonel George Washington Goethals, chief overseer of the project, but equal credit must go to William Gorgas, the Army doctor who wiped out the disease-carrying mosquitoes, and John Stevens, a rough, amiable Westerner who refused to start digging until there were adequate warehouses, railroad facilities, housing and hospitals...
John Ford," says Francis Ford Coppola, who has been both mentor and best friend to Lucas. "He doesn't really work a lot with his actors or tell them a lot. But he constructs his scenes so specifically, or narrowly-like a railroad track -that everything comes out more or less the way he sees it." Coppola considers Lucas "a pure film maker. He really only wants to put on film the things he loves. He has few pretensions about making 'great films' or 'great art,' and consequently he comes closer than most. I think...
...make the final decision? Surely, students and athletes, whose program it is, should have a say. And surely, interested alumni should also make their wishes known, for they have traditionally helped to support Harvard athletics. But financial support does not justify the use of heavy-handed pressure to railroad through a candidate. No single interest--no matter how enthusiastic or wealthy--should own the Harvard athletic program. Harvard's tradition is supposedly one of "athletics for all." The sooner all the parties involved in the current squabble realize that, and start playing by the rules of the game, the better...