Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political leaders, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah chided the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny for being "pro-colonialist." Retorted Houphouet-Boigny: "We will meet again in ten years, and then we will see which of us has done better for his country." They did not need to wait a decade to know the answer. Today, Nkrumah is in exile, Ghana is practically bankrupt-and the Ivory Coast is Black Africa's most flourishing young country...
...said it would not be proper to do this. For you see, Nixon wanted to make it appear as if he had already arranged certain contacts with the Soviet government. And this, of course, would have played a decisive role in the election. That is why we decided to wait a while until Kennedy came to power, and only after that release the American flyers...
...right are the lame, the aged and the nonproductive, whom Castro does not want anyway. Since the U.S.-sponsored Havana-to-Miami shuttle flights take out only 850 a week of the 200,000 to 300,000 Cubans who want to get out, the stranded Americans might have to wait four to six years-unless Fidel dreams up something new that he can barter them...
Marching Fever. Between now and the end of 1967, such sentiments will be all too evident in contract negotiations involving 2,250,000 workers in key industries like electrical equipment, trucking, autos and rubber. Such is the marching fever that some unions can barely wait their turn. In Detroit last week, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers demanded that the contract, which still has a year to run, be renegotiated for some 200,000 pipe fitters, millrights and other craftsmen. The U.A.W. in sisted that such workers get a $1-an-hour wage hike...
...Sweden, the shortage of loan funds is such that high-priority apartment construction in Stockholm has been cut back 40%, and the average wait for an apartment is now ten years...