Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps, he suggested, should equip itself with an orientation program which will teach its members to set forth the reasons and rationale (though not necessarily force them to reflect the opinions) behind government policy. It should also provide an F.B.I security check for each applicant, insist that each member selected swear to support the Constitution, and "select out" people who show themselves to be Comunist agents while working abroad...
...over plans for the organization of the new Congress, the NATO parliamentarians' meeting in Paris this week (Johnson will be chairman of the U.S. delegation), and the L.B.J. role in the new Administration. "It is my belief," said Kennedy, "that Senator Johnson's great talents and experience equip him to be the most effective Vice President in the history of our country...
...least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba more firepower than has ever been seen in the Caribbean...
...SAFETY will be improved by new government program. The Federal Aviation Agency will spend $163 million in next eight months to equip air-traffic-control centers with latest radar equipment, install better approach lights at dozens of airports...
...much "research" is not all it might be. and is sometimes at the mundane level that most impresses state legislators, there are signs of improvement. With huge budgets, state universities can lure and equip more top researchers. With lower tuition than private schools, they attract more graduate students. At the University of Michigan, 40% of the enrollment is graduate students. At Cal, it is 43%. Many state universities are moving in the direction of the exclusively graduate institution that the rest of the world calls a university-even though they will always have undergraduates...