Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differs sharply from the earlier proposal to scrap the present sophomore tutorial and expand junior tutorial into a two-year, more specialized program...
...Persian Gulf to Japan for $2 a ton, compared to $3 for a 75,000-ton and $4 for a 45,000-ton ship. It is so big that its hold could, in theory, carry the entire Queen Elizabeth if that giant of passengerliners were broken up for scrap...
...negotiate expires July 1, 1967. Meantime, the Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit from Kennedy Round tariff reductions. Moreover, all Six, plus Britain and Switzerland, insist that the U.S. must scrap its present method of setting certain import duties before the Kennedy Round resumes...
...launched 47 state enterprises that have invaded almost every sector of the economy. All but three of them are deep in the red, and the Kwame Nkrumah Steel Works had to close down after three months because it had used up all of Ghana's scrap iron, its only source of raw material. Government payrolls swelled to an amazing 250,000 people -two-thirds of all salaried workers in Ghana-and corruption was rampant. The wife of one of Nkrumah's Ministers imported a gold-plated bed, and one of his close advisers emptied his private swimming pool...
Normal Turmoil. Equally capable of a lively scrap is Attorney General Brooke, who was the first to go after the nomination. Unlike most successful Negro politicians, who owe their election to predominantly Negro constituencies, Ed Brooke, 46, led the G.O.P. ticket in 1962 and 1964 in a state with a Negro population of under...