Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to pollution is a scheme that has proved successful in the Ruhr. Flowing through West Germany's most concentrated industrial region, the river remains clean enough for swimming and boating within the shadow of smoke stacks - all because of the Ruhrverband, a cooperative society of 250 municipalities and 2,200 industries along the river. The society gets results with a simple principle: he who pollutes the waters must pay the cost of purification. Carefully calculated assessments have enabled the Verband to build 102 purification plants since 1948, and encourage members to clean up their own wastes. The Ruhr...
Mercenary Commander Mike Hoare has been ordered to attack Fizi as soon as he has trained his latest batch of white recruits, but it will be no easy task. Advised by a dozen Castro Cubans (who carry Spanish-Swahili dictionaries), the rebels have turned the Fizi region into a fortress of sorts. They are well equipped. Their every need is supplied by a fleet of rebel-operated "fishing" boats-which make regular runs across Lake Tanganyika between Fizi and Kigoma...
...build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded 23 acquaintances to donate $125,000 and up by offering to name a gallery after each and urging: "Here's a chance to leave your footprints in the community. Ed Carter, of course, is stamping his footprints on a whole region...
...palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then...
Thus, to qualify for the $764 million that Congress is expected to make available to Southern public schools this year, about 1,700 of the region's 1,950 districts submitted integration plans that were acceptable to U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. Roughly half of these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather...