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When REAP was started 37 years ago, the idea was that the Government would subsidize farmers to undertake such conservation practices as terracing their land, reseeding grassland and spreading lime on their fields to enrich them. The plan made sense in 1936: better conservation was urgently required to prevent the spread of dust bowls, and farm income in those Depression days needed bolstering by any means available...
Whitlock expects that an educational consultant will be chosen to take office by next fall, possibly sooner. A consultant will help PBH enrich its programs by informing volunteers of HArvard's untapped academic resources. As Whitlock said, "There has been a redefinition of PBH toward social action that demands a degree of professional skill. I think this trend can be enchanced by the University's support of its educational aspects...
John Maynard Keynes called profits "the engine which drives enterprise." Millions of Americans depend on that engine to a great degree not only for their jobs but also for financial growth through profit-sharing funds, pension funds and dividend payments. Profits are used to enrich not merely a relatively few corporate managers and big shareholders but also masses of wage earners. When profits are perking up, a company's management is more willing and able to grant wage and salary increases to its employees. High-profit companies can be expected to spend more than low-profit firms to invest...
...camera can have an impact on the way people live. I hope it can become a natural part of people. It can make a person pause in his rush through life. It will help him to focus himself on some aspect of life, and in the process, enrich his life at that moment. This happens as you focus through the view finder. It's not merely the camera you are focusing; you are focusing yourself. That's an integration of your personality, right that second. Then when you touch the button, what's inside you comes...
...Garcia Marquez, who is now 43, obviously came to terms with his great gifts after he had finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...