Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the tools, such as loan funds and technical assistance, needed to expand trade, says the report, already exist in United Nations agencies or bilateral agreements. But, the panel notes, they must be more fully implemented. The U.S. must provide more personnel to foreign nations, step up the spread of U.S. know-how, thus show the world an enthusiastic response to the economic challenge...
...warmaking prowess of the enemy advances and
consequently shortens the reaction time needed for the-U.S. to defend
and retaliate, continental-defense commanders believe they should be
authorized to use any superweapon in the U.S. arsenal at an instant's
notice.
...sufficient to meet the long-range financial needs of the College. These needs were of two types: those caused by present overcrowding--the Houses held three persons for every two they had been built for--and those which would need to be met before the College could expand...
Though the Administration never put any matter to a faculty vote, the President made it clear that the College would expand by fifteen to twenty per cent in the next twenty years, and said that it had been expanding at this rate for the last eighty without deteriorating. The argument ran that with more applicants, the College could take more without lowering its admissions standards...
...national policy. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois "republicans," who believed that the supreme end of social life was the self-gratification of the individual citizen, were left free to evade their taxes and pursue their pleasures. Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians. But neither of these groups -nor any other -was allowed to impose its vision of the good society on France as a whole...