Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...domed bazaar, a few shopkeepers haggled with farmers over fruits and vegetables to be sold later to housewives. About the only other activity was a gathering of girl students at Soraya School to celebrate National Children's Day and render thanks to Allah and the Shah, in roughly equal measure, for the blessings of a secondary education...
...potential investors the country's biggest asset is Olympio himself, a big man in a small country. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Olympio has almost eliminated a national deficit equal to one-third of the budget by impartially enforcing taxes, carefully auditing government accounts and setting an example of Spartan frugality. Declining to live in the official Prime Minister's house, he often bicycles to work, carefully turns off the refrigerator before going to bed "because I wouldn't want the electric people to think I'm becoming extravagant...
...idea of intervention into Cuban affairs is as distasteful to the U.S. as would be intervention into domestic affairs of any other American republic. In all candor I must state that many longtime friends of Cuba . . . have been gravely disillusioned by betrayals of the ideals of freedom of expression, equal protection of the laws and the right freely to choose a representative government...
...such absurd, Dogpatch-like creatures be thought equal to civilized people...
...much like the surface of a lake when a speedboat rips across it: waves go out and roll toward land. The sonic boom occurs when the shock wave from a jet hits the nearby ground. It follows the plane wherever it goes, and the pressure may make a sound equal to ten thunderclaps...