Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation from the Vietnamese point of view is an increasingly claustrophobic one. Its war with Cambodia shows every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy?suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...
Frankness, however limited, is one sign of the seriousness with which the regime treats its problems. Another sign is the unabashed pitch for U.S. aid. After three decades of continuous fighting, the Vietnamese are tired of struggle?and of what it has brought them. It is perhaps the final irony of the Viet Nam War that Hanoi, having persevered over its former enemies, now looks to Washington for help in achieving its socialist Utopia...
...Southern plants to parity with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union card in order to enjoy high pay, generous benefits and pleasant working conditions at big, high-technology firms like IBM, Kodak and Texas Instruments...
...million in 1974. But under Chairman William Seawell, who curbed costs and restored staff morale, Pan Am's fortunes have improved sharply. Profits reached $45 million last year on revenues of nearly $2 billion, and are piling up at a faster pace so far in 1978. As one sign of its recovery, the company announced last week that it would call in a third of a $75 million bond issue it floated two years ago; this will make it easier to finance a purchase of National, partly because it will trim Pan Am's existing interest obligations...
...past few years, researchers have become increasingly skilled at opening dialogues with chimpanzees, perhaps man's closest kin in the animal world. The famed chimp Washoe, now in Oklahoma, has managed to learn more than 100 hand sign-language symbols since the mid-'60s. At Yerkes, a sprightly female named Lana was tutored to communicate with her keepers in a language called Yerkish-a system of geometric symbols (squares, circles, lines, etc.) that stand for English words. By punching out these symbols, or lexigrams, as they are called, on a computer-monitored console, which displayed them...