Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberia is another good example. It is sustained largely by foreign investment, Firestone and Beth Steel. We had to tool up the Liberians to become effective bargainers with the main concessionaires. We taught them quite a lot about corporate tax practices. We gave them seminars, went through contracts with them, and showed them how to get more government revenue to speed internal growth...
...awaited, especially by the Nixon Administration. In his campaign, Nixon seemed to hint at a further cutback, stressing that "we are spread far too thin in too many countries." He has also said that he likes aid that "aids the U.S.A.," suggesting the use of assistance as a political tool...
Rejection Slip at 15. Daughter of a tool and die designer, she grew up outside of Lockport, a small city in western New York State. In a one-room schoolhouse, Joyce Carol's writer's reflex quickly asserted itself. She cannot recall a time when she was not setting down or thinking about a story. Her first submitted novel -250 pages devoted to a dope addict redeemed by getting a black stallion-was rejected by a New York publisher as too depressing for the 15-year-old market. Joyce Carol quietly accepted the verdict, though...
Factional fighting still flares frequently in the provinces. In Shansi, troops have had to be called in from elsewhere to still rioting. In Tibet, small guerrilla clashes are said to be frequent, and there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu...
Literature was distributed proving that Howell was a "communist" -both agent and tool. For some reason, possibly because America had changed and wants more change. the stuff never appealed to Virginia voters...