Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year child-health program to give poor families access to services ranging from prenatal care of mothers to free medical service through the first year of a baby's life. "It is a shocking fact," said Johnson, "that in saving the lives of babies, America ranks 15th among the nations of the world." - A wide range of new consumer-protection programs, including some already approved by the Senate but not the House (truth in lending, gas-pipeline safety) and several approved by neither (among them, a wholesome-fish-and-poultry act). He also proposed appointing a consumer counsel...
...biggest power vacuum would occur in the cleft federation of Malaysia and the nearby island republic of Singapore, where 35,000 British troops bolster morale in China's shadow and the British fleet enjoys strategic access to Far East sea lanes. Both countries, which had been counting heavily on British protection through 1975, are now busy organizing a NATO-style defense agreement with Australia and New Zealand...
...theatrical problem of St. Joan is an immense credibility gap. At the heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...argued that student access to these committees would hinder the committees' activities because (1) confidential and meaningful discussions would be impossible and 2) not enough interested and informed students could be found...
However, an individual can make a meaningful contribution to an educational community only if he is in a position to analyze intelligently and act responsibly on any given issue. At present, students are discouraged from contributing since it is impossible to do either without access to all crucial facts, including the reasoning upon which the final decision is based. Harvard's paternalism deprives students of the learning experience inherent in helping decide, reinforces immaturity because students are not fully responsible for their decisions and are not encouraged to analyze and reform the environment around them, and separates the students...