Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cuts coincide with a long-term effort in the government to distribute federal money across the country by concentrating grants more in the South and the Middle West. As Trottenberg says, Washington would rather "create more Harvards and more MIT's in other parts of the country than build up the ones in Cambridge...
Thursday morning, the council will "sit down" with Bridwell, the DPW, and representatives of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington to try to iron out a compromise plan for a Belt study. According to usually reliable sources, Bridwell might then announce a decision to build the Belt if a compromise is not reached...
...counter arguments for moving the requirement to the freshman year are convincing. The required course is remedial--and should be part of the freshman program by the same logic that puts Expository Writing 10 there. The best time to build on any earlier language training is during a student's first year, before he has forgotten all he learned in secondary school...
...possible concessions, Mills announced that his committee would turn to other business when it reconvenes next week. He gave no hint whether or when the tax surcharge would be reconsidered. However, if mobilizing of military reserves becomes large-scale, its extra cost and the austerity psychology evoked could well build up pressure on Mills and the House generally to reverse field...
...pushing a "young modern" charge account for shoppers between 18 and 25-with a $100 ceiling on credit purchases. In Indianapolis, L. S. Ayres & Co. department store has introduced a credit plan for "responsible young adults" between 18 and 21. A few banks are thinking young too. Anxious to build up its junior clientele, Arizona's Valley National Bank has started offering its credit card to qualified teen-agers with ads that proclaim: "It's what is, baby...