Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...short, your account-presumably well-intentioned-seems to have been a "paste and scissors" affair, put together by someone who is either too young, too uninterested, or too lacking in theatrical knowledge for the assignment. Perhaps all three...
...with dried fish and other food had to unload their own planes because workers had fled. Often food moved from Uli was brought back because distribution centers had been overrun. The last telex message from Biafra to Markpress, a Geneva public relations firm that has handled the Biafra account with skill, said tersely: "Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, the airstrip at Uli is functioning normally." Next day it fell and with it the nation that it had kept barely alive for so long...
With every account of hardship, there is an exhortation to greater work and sacrifice. Nowhere has there appeared an official suggestion that Hanoi should alleviate the suffering by calling a halt to the fighting. The power to make that decision rests with the triumvirate that succeeded Ho-Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Secretary Le Duan and Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh. Analysts in the South and elsewhere are convinced that Truong now ranks first among equals. Those with hopes of a quick end to the war can hardly take comfort from the fact that his name translates as "Long March...
...Administration's deflationary policy is finally working, Commerce Department officials reported last week that the economy's growth ground to a halt in the last three months of 1969. The gross national product increased by $10.3 billion in that period but, after price increases were taken into account, there was no "real" growth. Other signs of slowdown were plentiful. In December, industrial production declined for the fifth straight month, and new housing starts dropped slightly to an annual rate of 1,245,000, which was the year's lowest point. At the same time, personal income made...
...leaves his house to take a walk, and suddenly 47 assorted dogs, wild with lust, begin making messy love to your calf muscles. It is true, as they say in Dorchester, that "It's not the face you fuck," but the coiner of the phrase never took into account that bitch musk clings to one's clothes, and that male hounds are so blindly in love that they mistake corduroy for canine flesh...