Word: client
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...advisory services of the DAS are wholly independent of the U.S. government. The DAS provides its services only on invitation from a host country, and serves the interests of each client country as defined by its own political process. Advisory services have been financed mainly by the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the host countries. About half of the advisors are non-Americans. A University wide committee, which reviewed the DAS in 1968, concluded that the DAS was a "proper function for a university," and for Harvard in particular, and that the professional reputation...
...outset that I do not like the CFIA. From what I have been able to find out, it seems that its work is largely devoted-under liberal cover-to perpetuating and supporting archaic and oppressive regimes among the United States client nations. That, however, does not mean that I was glad to see it bombed...
...cite as an example of such a conclusion the CRIMSON'S pronouncement that "each client nation [of the DAS] was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment." The CRIMSON seems to be saying that the DAS is so interested in supporting American capital abroad that it gravitates toward countries that are "open" and "friendly" to the American investor...
...spite of the fact that a wide variety of governments turned up on the DAS roster-there were two unfailing characteristics which defined the work of its teams: 1) each client nation was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment and 2) in each field project, the overwhelming priority was to raise that nation's Gross National Product without as much thought or attention to the social effects of growth or the basic fairness of that country's political-economic structure...
...FAIR, the DAS team in Liberia-as in most other client countries-would have been impotent to change the government's stand on foreign investment; as Gordon said, "The fact is in Liberia they wouldn't have accepted [a proposed change]. We've been bounced out on our ear." Instead the team there concerned itself with advising the planning office on how to get the most money out of its U. S. contracts. But then, its objective function was to rationalize and stabilize the existing arrangements without challenging their economic and political consequence; strengthened ties to, and dependence on, American...