Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington insists that Hanoi make some parallel gesture. "All they have to do," said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford last week, "is get word to us that they have reduced the level of combat and will continue to reduce the level of combat, and that that constitutes a de-escalatory step." What Washington wants is private or public assurances from Hanoi to the effect that it intends to reduce, or at least not increase, its war effort. Barring that, some concrete evidence, such as a reduction in infiltration, could be taken as a token of good faith. To date, Clifford pointed...
...East African tribes; no one tribe dominates the rest. Moreover, it is one of Africa's many ironies that tribalism can be used to create national unity as well as shred it. In Zambia last year, for example, the country's angry young university graduates pressured older politicians to step aside, and typically inflated assorted tribal claims to clothe their ambitions. Seizing the tribal issues, President Kenneth Kaunda created a unifying nationalist ideology?a supratribal humanism based on what he called the old tribal concept of "a mutual aid society." With that New Dealish theme, Kaunda remains firmly in power...
...sought to accelerate that trend with a vigorous drive for "Africanization." He has refused to issue work permits to non-Africans when blacks can perform the same job, ruled that certain rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced out of business...
...retirement, and so he had, starting out as a stock boy in 1905 and climbing all the rungs to the top. He started the move into suburbia and expanded into South America, thereby boosting annual sales from $477 million to $700 million by the time he was ready to step down...
Determined to remedy that oversight, Bill White became embroiled with First National after it decided to form a holding company, a step that two rival Denver banks had already taken as a way of circumventing a Colorado law prohibiting branch banking. When the Whites suggested last month that five family-owned banks in southern Colorado be included in the holding company, called the First National Bancorporation, the bank replied that it would consider the request only after the new company went into operation...