Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight to defend its boundaries against any "theys." In short, a nation becomes a state when it has the power to occupy and hold a given amount of space and when other nations recognize this fact. This may not seem just or fair. It may smack too much of raw force and various doctrines of "the survival of the fittest" or "the territorial imperative" that have been used to justify force. Yet these basic conditions-identity, tradition, ability to stake out a territory, govern it and win recognition-are the only real criteria for sovereignty...
...major tribes-the Moslem Hausas and Fulanis in the North, the Yorubas in the West and the clever Ibos in the East. In January 1966, five years after independence, a group led by Eastern army officers toppled the Northern-dominated regime of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and exposed the raw nerves of those ancient rivalries. Northerners countered with a coup that installed Gowon, and their pent-up fury exploded in the massacre of thousands of Ibos living in the North...
...problems that Gott and his colleagues face are best illustrated by the fact that U.S. Steel, which at one time accounted for 65% of the nation's raw steel production, has slipped to 25%. Like the rest of the industry, the company has been hurt in recent years by Japanese and European imports, competition from other materials, and belated modernization. As its five spanking-new basic-oxygen furnaces (three more are being built) and its ultramodern continuous-casting operations attest, the company is finally starting to meet the situation headon...
...salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently respectable business...
...will be lonely no longer. Last week the Spanish government announced that at Bu-Craa, in partnership with the International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., it will soon begin mining the world's richest phosphate deposits, delivering the raw material of chemical fertilizer to an expanding market all over the world...