Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepared last week to greet President Johnson, they were hoping that the U.S. would fill the gap left by the departing British. Even before leaving on his trip, the President took measures to reassure the Malaysians. He ordered a reduction in U.S. sales of stockpiled rubber in order to bolster the price and thus help Malaysia, which supplies one-third of the world's rubber. U.S. aid officials were also studying requests for at least a modest amount of economic aid to support Malaysia's ambitious five-year development program, which would suffer if funds were diverted...
...their agreement. His unspoken threat: if Bonn does not ease the U.S. balance of payments burden by continuing the scheduled purchases, American forces might be substantially reduced in Germany. The prospect of U.S. troop reductions is a nightmare for any West German politician, and especially for Erhard. Nothing would bolster his standing in Germany quite so much as a resounding pledge from the President that U.S. troop strength will remain close to current levels. Presumably, Erhard also wants to try again for a commitment that the U.S. will help West Germany achieve some sort of eventual participation in a NATO...
...Labor Party to victory at the polls with promises not to engage in the type of "stop-go" economic policies that he accused the Conservatives of using in their economic crises. Yet last week he held up the biggest stop sign of all. In an effort to bolster the sagging pound, Wilson called for a freeze on all wages, prices and dividends in Britain as well as new taxes to squeeze inflation out of the economy...
Some American diplomats still favor a policy of reform and democratization. It was, for example, Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, who convinced Bosch to run once more for the presidency. But the American military continues to bolster all those Dominican interests which would make a Bosch victory hollow. And the State Department exerts little effort to disguise its support for Dr. Balaguer, the conservative candidate in this election...
...past year, a complex and ambitious program under American AID for South Viet Nam has pumped into that country an average of some $30 million worth of goods a month ranging from cement to penicillin, from sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers...