Word: vietnamization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took public two years later with just $13 million of annual profit--a figure that swelled to $11 billion by last year. While building AIG in the 1970s and '80s, Greenberg often was the only foreigner in sight in politically combustible countries like Romania, Iran, Vietnam and other parts of the Far East, and would draw a curious crowd just crossing the street...
...point of view, but the new dockers avoid the omniscient narrator, who conjures up dusty memories of driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away the soapbox. We aren't preaching at you. We also...
...Victory at Sea,” a television series about the Navy in World War II. The elder Hendricks, whom his daughter calls “one of my best friends,” was forced to give up his dream of enlisting in the Navy during the Vietnam War because of a bad heart...
Through BRYE she currently mentors a 10-year-old student from Vietnam and a 15-year-old from Afghanistan. She has given up some administrative roles in the organization to spend more time with the students...
...member, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, says he was “favorably surprised” by Summers’ early support for bringing the Reserve Officer Training Corps back to Harvard—three decades after the military program had been barred from campus during the Vietnam...