Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other superfluous Bantu" by sending them back to the Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work rounding them up. There was hopeful talk of a massive speedup in Verwoerd's program to create a group of rural statelets called Bantustans for use as a faraway residence for most of the black population. The government also launched a crash program to encourage more white immigration from Europe...
...President's decision underscored his conviction that, by judiciously selecting its first-string weapons and eliminating those of secondary strategic importance, the U.S. can build an adequate deterrent force within the $41 billion defense budget. Last week's speedup in offensive weapons stays within that limit. The money for it, and an extra $99 million to boot, will come from scrubbing two non-missile nuclear subs-designed mostly for antisubmarine warfare-and by slashing into programs for the BOMARC anti-bomber missile and its SAGE electronics net (TIME, April...
What Macmillan was objecting to was the speedup in the Common Market's plans to lower its internal tariff walls while raising barriers against other traders. A plan before the Common Market already proposes to chop internal tariffs 20% in July instead of the planned 10%; at the same time, external tariffs in West Germany and the Benelux countries, with which Britain does $850 million worth of trade annually, will rise sharply. Macmillan's fear was that the move would only widen the gap between the Common Market and the Outer Seven, divide Europe into two economic camps...
...high hopes for Minuteman is that it will prove feasible to launch the bird from moving cars traveling back and forth on the nation's railway system, but research into this possibility is barely getting started under a meager $1,000,000 contract. Needed: a speedup in the Minuteman program, possibly a step-up in production of Polaris subs...
Back to the Village. Any possible speedup at Aswan will be attractive to Nasser, who is pledged "to double the national income [currently a woeful $150 per capita] in ten years." Nasser, the audacious international adventurer, has at last begun looking to his country's internal needs. During a flurry of Cabinet meetings last June and July, the President ordered a rethinking of policies in the light of U.A.R. failures to extend its leadership in the Arab world-not only in Iraq, but also in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Sudan, Libya. One result of this rethinking was Nasser...