Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Italian colony was, and for the most part still is, a vast desert, more than three times the size of France but inhabited by fewer than 2,000,000 people. Their chief exports consisted of camels, dates and scrap metal from the battle wreckage of World War II. Their per capita income: $50 a year. But underneath the desert, undiscovered until the late 1950s, lay the oil that would fuel Gaddafi's ambitions for Libya...
Like a wallflower at the country club ball, Ogden Corp. remained relatively unnoticed among the conglomerates that flourished in the '60s. Despite its relative anonymity, though, Ogden is among the 100 biggest corporations in the country-a scrap metal-shipbuilding-food service empire that generates annual sales of more than $1 billion. It also has recovered more rapidly from ill fortune than many farther-famed conglomerates...
...contact with students and that's the only way to improve," he says. "The curriculum has to account for the black student's interest--where he comes from." The contacts forced Monro to redefine his traditional theories of teaching and success. Good teaching became a readiness to scrap traditional ideas in favor of classroom gold--the approach that works." And success became any evidence of improvement-- "I work with the individual and I only want him to move up from where he starts." Monro points out that by the time Miles students graduate, their academic performances have no correlation...
...only way into the scrap that the Service News could find was a review of the book by F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and chairman of the Committee of Censorship of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Professor Matthiessen reviewed "Strange Fruit," saying that it was "thoroughly shameful for such a book to be banned in Boston at the very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems...
...began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book's best passages relate intricate New York politicking, with reformers pitted-as they still are today-against regulars. As a freshman state senator, Franklin often stood bravely on his principles...