Word: bank
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Although opposition to foreign aid is becoming increasingly powerful--the House recently turned down a modest program for financing a World Bank affiliate--the President need not have presented the aid program to its opponents as a gift. Congressional cuts from Administration requests during the last decade have averaged nearly $850 million each year, and Johnson knows that something like that amount is sure to be cut this year, especially in view of the fall elections. But the bill is passed each year, even though it has become something of a political whipping boy. Staunch Administration stands have several times...
Black, who is the former head of the World Bank, said he thinks President Kennedy would have anted "to see this Kennedy institute developed as a place that can help bridge the gap between business and government," and called this "a worthwhile reason for corporate giving to this project...
...assailants then grabbed and held Wright while the third hit him several times in the face. Wright fell to the ground. The assailants picked him up by his arms and legs, carried him to the river bank, and hurled...
Wright surfaced about six yards out from the bank and waded ashore. By then, he said, the attackers were gone. He ran to the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston St. and tried to flag down a car. Unsuccessful, he ran to Stillman Infirmary. There he was questioned by the University police and the MDC police...
...battles that the first Treasury Secretary fought with Jefferson and Madison, "Hamilton's enlarged views of the purposes of the Constitution prevailed." A major move was the establishment of the first Bank of the United States, which occasioned Hamilton's 15,000-word opinion on its constitutionality; in Rossiter's view, this was "perhaps the most brilliant and influential one-man effort in the long history of American constitutional law." The measure of Hamilton's victory is that the Jeffersonians who won the election of 1800, "like the Republicans who came after Franklin D. Roosevelt, might...