Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born during the Depression, REA sought, by offering loans at a less-than-cost rate of 2% interest, to bring electricity to thousands of farm families that had none. REA did its job, and well: now more than 95% have such service. The necessity for a federally subsidized REA system has obviously decreased with REA success, yet REA has continued to grow as a dug-in interest, representing assets, loans, etc., worth billions and often generating as much political as electrical power...
...inviting you to a duck dinner," a gluttonous comic-strip character named J. Wellington Wimpy used to say. "You bring the duck...
...money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar or two per employee every month as a contribution to the fund. Teamster contributions: zero. The Gibbons pitch: "Let's give some money to charities. You bring the money...
...Shah grew so nervous about the new power in Baghdad that he demanded changes in the proposed new U.S.-Iranian agreement, to guard against invasion from Iraq as well as from Russia. It was hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...
...like to sit there. Stoke's credentials are various: he headed the University of New Hampshire from 1944 to 1947, then took on the presidency of Louisiana State University and, until his resignation (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951), tried without much success to deflate big-time athletics, bring in out-of-state professors. Until his appointment last fall as president of New York City's Queens College, he did assorted deaning at the University of Washington and New York University. Some of his observations...