Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II a nation of what was then 12 million raised an army of 1,000,000 and lost more than 40,000 dead. But Canadians have never fought in a conflict essentially their own, even though they may have been deeply committed to the principles at stake. They fought for Britain in the Boer War and the two World Wars, for the U.N. in Korea. Canadian soldiers have served in every U.N. peace-keeping mission except West New Guinea, and Canada is still a member of the ectoplasmic International Control Commission in Viet Nam. But despite its diplomatic...
...have been be clouded by a deep philosophical and economic schism between the adherents of private redevelopment and those who advocate publicly financed urban renewal. Last week Illinois Freshman Senator Chuck Percy introduced a housing bill that would combine both approaches and, in addition, give the slum dweller a stake in his own environment...
...plank in his 1966 Senate campaign-calls for the establishment by the Federal Government of a nationwide, nonprofit, private housing federation that would buy and rebuild slum dwellings, then sell them to low-income families on a unit-by-unit basis, thus giving the man in the slum a stake in his own neighborhood. Working from a base of a threeyear, $60 million Government outlay and $2 billion in federal debenture bonds, the plan would ultimately generate up to $1.3 billion in rehabilitated housing...
Professional reputations are at stake. One highly-regarded reading authority accused Evelyn Wood of being a "speed merchant." In 1962, George D. Spache, director of the reading laboratory and clinic at the University of Florida, wrote: "Furthermore, if anyone offers to teach you or your pupils to read at speeds in thousands of words per minute..., the kindest thing you can say to him is that he is completely ignorant of the nature of the act of reading...
Secretary of State Rusk, never known for his diplomatic adeptness in dealings with foreign Leftists, insists that Hanoi suspend her infiltration into the South before America stops the bombing. This is folly. It asks Hanoi to abandon her entire military stake in exchange for discontinuing only part of America's military effort...