Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called The Network tries to correct dangerous false rumors and get gang members into job-training programs. "The problem is solvable," says Mayor Frank Rizzo, "but it won't be done in my lifetime. I'd like to go out and raze every building out there and rebuild it all-schools, pools, parks, everything. But we don't have the money to do that...
...dangerously listing ship with the expectation of helping to save it, only to find out the captain did not want his kind of help. Now Connally is abandoning it with less of a reputation than when he boarded. His presidential aspirations have suffered a setback, but he plans to rebuild by campaigning for Republican candidates in 1974. From now on, he will have to search for power in corridors outside the White House...
...particularly students who had time to ponder such matters, started to search for an explanation for the Vietnamese resistance. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
Twice daily, passenger trains-with heavily armed troops riding shotgun -puff along in each direction. In Danang, about 3,000 of the city's refugees and unemployed have been hired by the government at 650 per day to help rebuild the city. Identified by their powder blue vests, they lay new sidewalks, clean drains, and will plant some 300,000 trees along the beaches...
...access to greater information about the war and more time to ponder it, questions arose about the unseen enemy. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...