Word: establish
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Passed last year, the act authorizes more than $1 billion in Federal grants over a four year period. Its half dozen main programs are designed to indentify, and help establish, each student's abilities; to improve instruction in science, mathematics, and languages; to provide more college teachers, more loans for college students, and to stimulate educational research...
What would the effects of such a program be on the recipients and on the universities themselves? The universities certainly would profit. "A rise of $500 in tutition made possible substantially by an adequate loan program," Harris says, "would double salaries and re-establish the economic status of faculty at a level commensurate with the attraction of talent." There is one local drawback, however. If private business is not interested in taking on the program (which seems likely, since inflation would probably deplete much of the profit), the alternative suggested is the federal government. These two words are anathema...
...nine years Dominican Pire thinks he may have traveled 250,000 miles telling the story of the D.P.s. "My subject is not exciting," he warns his listeners. "My subject is misery." But that very misery, he feels, may "serve to unite us," to establish, at least as a beginning, a "Europe of the heart . . . Two ideas are dear to me. The first is that for us each refugee is a man, a being of infinite worth, who deserves all our attention, all our love, whatever his nationality, his religion, his learning, his poverty, his moral misery. The other idea...
...Latin America's Protestant community from a mere 170,000 in 1916 to nearly 5,000,000 today. To halt this trend, CELAM wants more clergymen. Latin America has 35% of the world's Catholics but only 8.7% of its priests. CELAM's plan is to establish new seminaries in Latin America to train native clergy. In the meantime, it wants more Spanish and other foreign priests to fill...
After the game had ended, Coach John Yovicsin was at some pains to establish this as a "team victory." A team victory it certainly was; but this does not obscure the fact that quarterback Charlie Ravenel was, more than any other individual, responsible for the outcome...