Word: catalystic
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Bundy also favored more federal assistance to higher education, saying that it is "good, and needed-and should grow" from last year's total of $4 billion. He sees the Ford Foundation's own role as that of an experimenter, innovator and catalyst, doing what others are not equipped to do. Foundations, says Bundy, should "search for leverage in which national resources can be more effectively put to work on a problem." One new area of experimentation under study at Ford is a long-term program to reform graduate education, involving the ten "pacesetting" universities that award...
...does he think that the Center is pushing people into his own personal projects. "John Putnam is the genius of nothing," says John Putnam. "I'm not a program driver; I'm just a catalyst," bringing together people with similar interests who can help each other...
...bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe and the U.S. for a free look at the Phoenicia. Soon their clients filled it close to capacity, and it is now a gem of the chain. "We are a catalyst for economic growth and trade," says Gates. Case in point: after the Karachi Intercontinental opened in mid-1964 with cold martinis and five-hour laundry service, tourist arrivals in Pakistan nearly doubled...
...metal it needs. It depends heavily on imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical, paper and plastics industries. A corrosive poison in some forms (mercury bichloride), a therapeutic salve in others (mercury ammonium chloride), fickle mercury also goes in hefty quantities into such disparate products as dental fillings and dry-cell batteries, antibarnacle...
...disparage the high purposes inspiring many of these programs. But we do want to see a dollar's worth of work done for every dollar spent. Our experience in New York shows plainly that federal bypassing of state leadership and ability to act as a guide and catalyst is both wasteful and self-defeating...