Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uneasy quiet settled over East Africa, eyes turned back to the tiny island 22½ miles off the coast where the region's troubles had all begun two weeks ago. Though there appeared to be no active, political connection between the mainland mutinies and Zanzibar's new leftist regime, it seemed that the island violence had flashed like chain lightning across the Zanzibar Channel. "It's like prison riots," said an experienced U.S. official. "When one explodes, the others begin...
Would the shock waves of East African revolt move inland to plague the wobbly governments of other territories? One vulnerable region was Northern Rhodesia, which is due to get its independence by year's end. But all was quiet last week as thousands of African voters flocked to the polling booths to elect Northern Rhodesia's first Prime Minister...
While Sears President Crowdus Baker concentrates on building catalogue sales (26% of total volume) with added outlets and faster deliveries, Cushman is working to strengthen a weakness in Sears's domestic chain: the 13-state Eastern region that generates 40% of all U.S. retail sales. Long dominant in the Midwest, Sears has rebuilt some Eastern stores and opened many new ones, is erecting a mammoth distribution center in Secaucus, N.J., to service them. Meanwhile, capitalizing on its Latin American experience, Sears next year will open stores in Madrid and Barcelona, use Spain as a wedge into the Common Market...
Floating Shelf. Unlike the northern polar region, which is ocean covered with ice, the area around the South Pole is a large land mass above which a thick icecap can form. During relatively nonglaciated periods such as the present, Dr. Wilson calculates, ice builds up on Antarctica, and the southern icecap reaches higher and higher. The top of the ice remains very cold, but the bot om is warmed slightly by heat escaping from the interior of the earth. Finally, the combined effect of pressure from the thickening cap and geothermal warming below melts the ice at the bottom. This...
...thesis of the project, which grew out of 15 years of research summarized in McClelland's book, The Achieving Society, is that by developing achievement motivation in key individuals who hold or will hold executive positions in under-developed countries, the rate of development of a particular area or region can be accelerated...