Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold reserves by foreign claims. Early in his Administration, the President determined to make a concerted drive to stem the flow. That determination remains. But many businessmen and economists are concerned about whether the Administration is actually doing enough to stop a long-term outflow that could eventually drain the nation's reserves to a perilous level and destroy international confidence in the dollar...
...advice last week, John F. Kennedy asked Roger Blough over to the White House. The invitation aroused sardonic comment from businessmen around the country, but the problem at issue was one that concerned the chairman of the U.S. Steel Corp. no less than the President: the chronic U.S. gold drain...
Advice from Europe. Many bankers both at home and abroad sniff that this is overly mild medicine. The real reason for the continuing gold drain, they argue, lies in low U.S. interest rates, which encourage U.S. investment capital to flow out to higher-interest countries abroad...
...host of new policies. Some of the most innovations came only in round-about ways-- can be traced back to Buck or to the CEP -- which to much the same thing. For example, one of the of the CEP was a possible disintegration of the curriculum because of wartime drain on Harvard . The CEP established a few survey courses the core of a liberal arts education; and out of the on this subject emerged the idea of general education. A committee chaired by Buck was set up to study the ; the committee report led to the present course required...
...fine. But Mrs. Bunting had even more ambitious plans in mind. To replace the off-campus houses, which have been a drain on the College's financial resources for years, she proposed to build a House and solicited students' on how to construct it. The response came from campus dwellers who clung to the shaky frame houses and nothing could be better. Convinced at last that their day was over, them sadly joined in plans for on Garden St. to house 275 undergraduates and 25 faculty members. Somehow the builders will try to incorporate all the advantages of the campus...