Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously, all about the war. Many American civilians in Saigon have taken to carrying their own weapons-.357 Magnum revolvers, Beretta automatics, M-16 rifles, some privately owned and some issued by the military. Since many of the Americans apparently have never handled loaded weapons before and tend to gesture with the barrels as they talk, the guns sometimes go off by mistake...
Champagne for Opponents. Unlike his counterparts in other African countries who tend to denounce all forms of foreign influence, Houphouët has accomplished the Ivory Coast's transformation by openly luring overseas capital and know-how to fill the vacuum left by the French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half...
...Today an increasing number of U.S. Protestant thinkers regard Barth as somewhat old hat and Schleiermacher as much more of a living force. University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey notes that "when students come across him, they say, 'This is a guy who can help me.' Students tend to come alive with Schleiermacher." The most obvious reason for the revival of interest in his work is that the "passional" experience of religion-as Schleiermacher called it-makes more sense to modern man than a purely intellectual...
Thus it is unsurprising that the poky ways of the FCC tend to bring out not only the prayers but the Don Rickles in most people. Michigan's Democratic Congressman John Dingell said last week that the FCC people "are in such a horrible quagmire of past failures that they can't face any of the problems before them." Newton Minow, the FCC's critical and scholarly ex-chairman, recalls that it was all "a quixotic world of undefined terms, private pressures and tools unsuited to the work." Some of the incumbent commissioners throw up their hands...
...technology-for cartridges as well as cassettes-is progressing rapidly and unpredictably. Some segments of the U.S. record industry, led by Columbia, Capitol and especially RCA Victor, are still betting heavily on cartridges, partly because they fear that the cassettes' potential as a home recording device would tend to undercut disk sales. On the other hand, many industry sources privately agree with the prediction of Rein Narma, consumer-products manager for Ampex, which markets all three types of tape. "We believe very strongly," says Narma, "that the cassette will be the eventual surviving tape format, and it is possible...