Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time passed, and the country felt the impact of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, it became clear that ethics needed to be reincorporated into the curriculum...
...late to head off a welfare bill he opposed. PHIL KNIGHT, CEO of Nike, saw a 77% increase in profits last quarter. That was clouded by the report of a Vietnamese-American labor activist that many Nike shoes are produced at plants in Vietnam where the mostly female work force faces corporal punishment and 12-hr. workdays. All that for about $1.60 a day. Nike promised changes...
...very absence is an oddity of the city's monumental architecture. The Revolutionary War sports grand monuments to Washington and Jefferson. The Civil War is inescapable; no traffic circle in the city is complete without its bronze man on a bronze horse. Even our most recent wars--Korea and Vietnam--are represented, with symmetrically placed memorials flanking the base of the Lincoln Memorial...
...commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine to serve as the nation's top military officer and could spur serious change. The 6-ft. 2-in. Bostonian and decorated Vietnam vet has riled the Air Force by questioning costly new warplanes, unnerved the Navy by doubting the value of carriers and irked the Army by suggesting the mothballing of some tanks...
...attended the Acid Test Festivals with Ken Kesey in the early '60s, appeared on film with Bob Dylan and publicly protested the Vietnam...