Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, in the House Appropriations Committee, the first money installment under the $1.1 billion Appalachia program-$344,328,000, more than half of which is for highways and access roads in the eleven-state region...
Operation Backfire. Almost simultaneously, South Vietnamese and U.S. forces launched another key offensive in the Boiloi Forest, 48 square miles of Communist stronghold 25 miles northeast of Saigon. Leaflets were dropped on the cave-infested region, warning all noncombatants to get out fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
Belyayev, 39, and the oldest cosmonaut who has yet flown in space, was born in the Vologda region east of Leningrad. As a child he skied three miles to school and tried at 16 to join the ski troops in the war with Nazi Germany...
...includes about 22 members, well distributed among the departments and administrative offices. There are a few "specialists" who have been on the Committee for several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While all the decisions...
...includes about 22 members, well distributed among the departments and administrative offices. There are a few "specialists" who have been on the Committee for several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While all the decisions...