Word: embarking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloc. The usually liberal-minded Ivy Leaguers recognized wherein the threat lies, and a surprising majority (86%) stated that the U.S. should become more aggressive in the cold war. Ninety-five percent thought that the Soviet Union usually assumes the initiative, thus making it imperative for the U.S. to embark upon unprecedented offensive maneuvers. Among the most frequent suggestions as to how the battle should be carried out was through "foreign economic aid and trade." Others stressed intensified propaganda, fomenting revolts and supporting such to the utmost...
Surging Stocks. Rather than embark upon a massive new silver purchase program, Kennedy decided to take the Government out of the silver market and to have the Treasury meet its needs for coinage silver out of its currency-backing reserves. As a first step, he ordered that the 10% of $5 and $10 bills now backed by silver should gradually be replaced by Federal Reserve notes, a move that will ultimately free 500 million ounces of the reserve silver for use in coins. He also promised to ask Congress for authority to discontinue silver backing for $1 and $2 bills...
While Harvard was forced to embark on a nation-wide alumni fund drive to raise money from College graduates, Brown was able to get $3 million from all the people of Rhode Island, by selling itself as an "integral part of the community." One can only wonder at the effect of such a local appeal campaingn in the Greater Cambridge area...
...army because of an infected foot. Odysseus and Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, come to Lemnos to persuade Philoctetes to give them the bow of Heracles. Without it, says the seer Helenus, the Greeks will never capture Troy. After many a stratagem and one deus ex machina, all three embark for Troy with the bow. Sophocles artfully balances these three characters so that at one pole Odysseus represents super-subtlety, and at the other Neoptolemus embodies noble naivete. In the middle is Philoctetes...
...contain at least a shack. Overdevelopment is particularly evident around the University itself, a district whose primarily residential character imposes decided restrictions on any construction that Harvard may anticipate. Because of those intrinisc limitations and because overdevelopment has caused land values to skyrocket, the University reasons that it must embark on a program aimed mainly at conversion of its own open land and out-dated facilities...