Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush to get listed on the stock exchanges has been going on for many months, partly because U.S. companies are increasingly aware of the advantages of listing: added prestige, broader ownership of shares, more active trading in the stock. Last week they got an added reason for listing that is sure to speed up the trend. President Johnson signed a bill that gives the Government broad new authority to regulate stocks traded both on and off the exchanges...
...Pentagon meanwhile worked out broader plans. The Joint Chiefs transferred an attack carrier group with the flagship Ranger from the First Fleet along the west coast of the U.S. into Sharp's Pacific area. Thailand agreed to accept two squadrons of U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers. More than 50 F-102s and B57 Canberra jet bombers took up residence at airfields at Danang, Saigon and Bienhoa in South Viet Nam. Near Bienhoa, a B57 crashed into the jungle with Capt. Fred C. Cutrer Jr. and Lieut. Leonard L. Kaster aboard. Hampered by Communist guerrillas, rescuers were unable to find...
Tang helped Hong Kong by crusading for higher quality and a broader outlook than "one-shot" sales, helped set up permanent "ambassadors" of the industry in Brussels and New York and promoted Hong Kong products on his own wide travels. His new finishing plant reflects his belief that Hong Kong's textile industry must upgrade itself and diversify: instead of producing only basic fabrics, he insists, it must embrace a wide variety of quality and costlier finished goods. Tang's efforts have made him a millionaire many times over, but he is not awed by money. When...
MEDICARE. Unlike the 1960 platform, the plank summarily rejects a medical-aid plan financed and administered through social security. The G.O.P. favors "full coverage of all medical and hospital costs of needy elderly people, financed by general revenues through broader implementation of federal-state plans, rather than the compulsory Democratic scheme covering only a small percentage of such costs for everyone regardless of need...
...summary form, it is the task of General Education to give the student an appreciation of the civilization of which he is a part, to make him aware of different fields and methods of inquiry, and to encourage a broader view of the potentialities and limitation of his own specialty...