Word: rebuild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools have been built with U.S. aid, and nearly all of the islands' 15,000 school-aged children are now in school. And what kind of economic development can be expected where coconut trees and fish are about the only resources? As for the failure to rebuild former Japanese industries, the U.S. could argue that none of them did the natives much good, since they were designed chiefly to help Japanese war plans-alcohol to fuel torpedoes, bauxite to provide the aluminum for airplanes...
...first, Pak hoped that Premier John Chang, victor in South Korea's first honest elections, would sweep out the graft and inefficiency and rebuild the creaking Korean economy. Instead, corruption continued, and Premier Chang's bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
Last week Goodwin was busy trying to rebuild on the wreckage of the exile Revolutionary Council. At best, the council was a shaky coalition of the leftist People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.) of Engineer Manolo Ray and the more conservative groups behind the Democratic Revolutionary Front (the Frente) of Manuel Antonio Varona. The Frente faction talks wishfully of organizing an anti-Communist crusade of 20,000 Latin Americans to storm Castroland...
...year from the grateful Indian government, moved to Bombay and devoted himself to the breeding of polo ponies. But he was best known for the apartment building he started in Bombay, in which a team of masons was permanently employed to alternately tear down and rebuild the walls of one room. A fortune teller had warned Sir Hari that he would die the moment the building was completed...
Goldwater also suggested sweeping reforms for the American tax system. "We should completely destroy the present tax structure and rebuild it in a sensible way," he asserted...