Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christ as that willowy young man with the far-away look in his eyes, the meek but confident son of God who, disguised as Jesus, mild-mannered converter to a great Middle-Eastern religion, preaches a never-ending sermon for Love, God, and the Eternal Life. Webber and Rice fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico who wants to co-opt Christ...
...course, that so-and-so was the "bagman," a collector of graft and bribes for Mayor Frank Hague, whose machine Kenny served and then ousted. That somebody's indolent cousin had been put "on the pad" by some ward leader's exertions. That every year on "Rice Pudding Day" those lucky enough to receive city patronage or employment kicked back a certain percentage of their gains. That "the little guy" himself distributed work tickets early in the morning to men going to the docks for the shape-up. That, as a matter of course, if a firm...
...push. The shift to a peacetime economy must be accomplished by Asians themselves, but the U.S. will have to help with grants, loans and private investment. With $2.5 billion in aid over ten years-far less than the cost of the war-South Viet Nam could grow all the rice that it needs, develop forestry and fertilizer industries, and press along with hydroelectric development on the Mekong River. Though the U.S. withdrawal is spoiling the spoils of war, America's most valuable long-term economic contribution to Asia would be to remove even more troops and let the normal...
...points out that Vietnamese businessmen make "quick and exorbitant profits" by securing import permits and selling foreign goods at outrageous markups. Bureaucrats collect bribes for dispensing the permits, and the Saigon government gets most of its income from import taxes. The report also contends that large shipments of American rice have reduced Saigon's incentive to fight Viet Cong influence in the rice-rich Mekong Delta...
...other workers. Now that the Yankees are moving out, the Thais are scouting for new markets for their own products. The Asian Development Bank study found that the war-induced financial windfall had weakened the nation's "incentive to export" its rich resources of teak, rubber, tin, rice and maize. Some Thais also argue that the war lowered their country's morals. G.I.s spent $22 million last year while on leave in Thailand, and Bangkok's prostitute population doubled to 20,000. Their income has done little to stimulate the economy. Typically, a massage parlor girl keeps...