Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (1 last week...
...economy is booming. Industrial development is spurting, thanks to the Bahamas' cheap labor, plentiful land and absence of income taxes. To lure international funds, the government has turned the islands into a miniature Zurich and induced 77 banks to set up shop, offering 6% interest rates and secret, coded accounts -no questions asked...
Power to the State. The book, a compendium of secret memos to Premiers and public articles by Balogh over the past dozen years, hammers at one main point: underdeveloped countries must rapidly industrialize by "conscious planning and state intervention." Balogh frowns on most private foreign investment and advises underdeveloped countries against all "unnecessary investments," such as money spent for the production of more than one basic kind of auto. Though he is a Fabian Socialist, he urges the underdeveloped to be tough with their labor: discourage trade unions and minimum wage laws, he suggests, because they increase production costs...
Harvard considers its Predicted Rank List (PRL), which it uses as a factor in admissions, the "best single predictor yet devised of how well a man will do at Harvard." The PRL, which is derived from a secret formula of college board scores and high school rank in class, is also an excellent predictor of post-graduate performance. Of the 88 members of the class of '66 with PRL's between 2.0 and 2.4, 54 are in graduate schools of arts and sciences. Only 17 of the 153 graduates who entered Harvard with PRL's between...
...Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism, emerged from the conference table. Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the Eastern Ibos whose threatened secession precipitated the present crisis, called the negotiations "a very big success." Gowon said simply, "Nigeria will definitely remain united...