Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed in years. Because of some mysterious "American image" concept, the boys at State consider it unethical to make use of a propaganda advantage unless it favors the Communists. They are eager to encourage socialist revolutionaries and they have so little faith in freedom that they fear the "political vacuum" that would result if Communism were crushed...
...business only begins with transportation. Martin Marietta has a $90,000 contract to create a drill to explore 10 ft. below the lunar surface, Westinghouse and Northrop more than $500,000 each for a 100-ft. drill. Ralph Stone & Co. of Los Angeles is spending $100,000 to develop vacuum containers to carry rock samples back to earth. Under an $88,000 contract, Martin is also making lunar tools, including a lightweight geological hammer, a hand lens and a scale to weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny TV cameras to transmit...
...American hands-off policy might stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...
...rest of the year is built. If a student doesn't master the concept of Consideration in Contracts, he might well not bother to learn about Unilateral Contracts. If he doesn't understand Hadley v. Baxendale, he will study the whole area of breach of contract in a vacuum...
...investment is concentrated in three countries. In Britain, where American business has spent $4.8 billion, U.S. companies make 55% of the vacuum cleaners, 34% of the tires, control half of the country's 40,000 filling stations. American companies have spent $2.5 billion in France, account for 70% of its sewing machines, 40% of its rubber, 35% of its farm machinery. In West Germany, U.S. firms have invested $2.3 billion, control 40% of the auto industry, 50% of the oil refineries, 80% of the computer market...