Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more disturbing is that some coffee-drinking nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes 50% of the global output, per capita daily consumption has fallen from 3.12 cups to 2.86 cups in four years, apparently because younger Americans tend to prefer soft drinks. Thus last week, Joao Oliveira Santos, executive director of the International Coffee Organization, reminded delegates that coffee production, increasing at the rate of 5% annually, is now double the annual amount consumed by coffee drinkers...
...subordinates tend not to argue or to bring up the unpleasant business of the public opinion polls. Indeed one of Johnson's problems is a worsening dearth of idea men and "no" men willing to discuss bad news with him. He favors loyalty, submission and long tenure above all other virtues, and has eliminated gadflies from the White House staff and the higher echelons of Government. The phrase Great Society is rarely heard from official lips now, and there are no new coinages...
Fire Chief Charles J. Quinlan, and the truth probably lies somewhere in between. For one thing, insurance adjusters naturally tend to put a low figure on damages. More important, the adjusters' estimate referred only to insured losses within the riot areas, where many looted and burned-out properties were only partially insured, or without coverage altogether...
Slums & Monuments. In Ireland, the English tend to become more Irish than the Irish. The taxi driver who took Pritchett to his first hotel was full of "bedads" and "begobs," but turned out to be a cockney. Ironically, the great buildings of this attractive city were erected by the Anglo-Irish in their 18th century heyday; fortunately, they escaped disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once...
...planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." Since Italy has minor trade dealings with Hanoi, the Administration-backed Fiat deal seemed to be quashed. To make certain, the Senate at week's end made the Fiat ban specific...