Word: catalysts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second great contribution of the corps, according to Boone, would be as a "catalyst" for local volunteer groups and private agencies. He said that most projects would eventually be taken over completely by local groups and corpsmen freed for new work...
...phrase "catalyst" was used by Dr. Taylor to describe his hopes for the Peace Corps, and the flourishing of overseas teaching projects, scholarship programs, and other private endeavors are testimony that those hopes were not false ones...
...even if the national service corps never achieves the glamour of the overseas Peace Corps, nor the controversial role some students would like to see, it can become a catalyst for local volunteer action and a publicizer of presently ignored injustice. It would be unfortunate indeed if the Administration chooses to sacrifice the enabling legislation to the fiscal conservatives without a good fight...
While pleased with this performance, economists feel that consumer spending must rise even faster than the 4% a year it has been rising, if it is to act as the catalyst for a strong economic advance. The reason: industry's present capacity has been more than enough to handle the consumer's spending rise up to now; capital spending and industrial production are not likely to rise much without even bigger consumer spending. Thus, economists who feel that the consumer needs a new stimulus count heavily on the tax cut that, to judge by public opinion polls...
...inevitable'' position. Che went on: "The Cuban revolution has shown that in conditions of imperialist domination such as exist in Latin America, there is no solution but armed struggle. Cuba has shown that small guerrilla groups, well led and located at key points, can act as a catalyst of the masses, bringing them into mass struggle. We say that this can be done in a large number of Latin American countries...