Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Tokenism. The motive is part altruism, part profit. In many cities, poor and unskilled nonwhites now constitute almost the only untapped or underused reservoir of labor. Moreover, businessmen recognize that the economic health of cities is vital to the health of their own companies. The recent push by U.S. business to employ "hardcore jobless" has moved beyond tokenism to a substantial commitment to help quiet the smoldering volcano of urban unrest...
...third candidate for Mr. Wilson's post has connections with an untapped reservoir of basketball strength--the New Delhi school-yards. At 6-8 Galbraith might even fit into the picture as player-coach. Next year's Ivy League championship game could feature a head-to-head shoving match between Galbraith and Columbia's other-worldly flake, 7-0 Dave Newmark. We've been told (and George Plympton should know) that the Canadian-born scholar is quite a mover. Fast big men are hard to find...
...jets with government guaranteed loans and, recently, a former Taiwan air force chief, who is also a close associate of Chiang Ching-kuo's, appeared as CAL's No. 1 man. Clearly, Taiwan wanted an airline that could be controlled at home and manned by an ample reservoir of retired air force personnel...
This gruesome image has been framed in the consciousness of a great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
...rabies, the Public Health Service reports. The 1967 record was marred by two delayed deaths of Americans from dog bites received overseas, one in Guinea, one in Egypt. Still, there is no reason for relaxing and forgetting about rabies. Because wild animals, especially foxes and skunks, are still a reservoir of rabies virus, PHS urges continued vaccination of dogs...