Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Undergraduate Teachers will expand its program next year to include the Boston Public School system, David M. Goldberg '59, organizer of HUT, said yesterday. HUT negotiations with city officials to "bring schools that are within walking or street-car distance from the College" into the program are now underway, he explained...
...these slings Johnson bore in tight-lipped silence. Then, with little advance warning, he showed up last week as the only congressional leader at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand the economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor...
...Bonn "Constitution" gives the President a vague and as yet undefined voice in external matters: "The Federal President shall represent the Federation in matters concerning international law. He shall conclude treaties with foreign states on behalf of the Federation. . . ." When Adenauer becomes President he may attempt to expand this power beyond its present ceremonial limits. If he can live long enough, he might transform the Presidency into more than a formal role, and alter the Bonn Republic to a system which lies between the British and the American...
...Expand the U.S. investment insurance program (TIME, July 28) to cover as much as $1 billion in new investments (current ceiling: $500 million) and to cover losses from war, revolution or civil strife...
...different than exist today. NATO was construoted to meet a military threat; the Soviets have conceded, hopefully, that direct military attack on Europe would be disastrous for themselves, but have resultantly increased the tempo of their economic expansion. If NATO is to continue as a useful organization it should expand its functions into the diplomatic and economic spheres. Increased diplomatic cooperation was urged after the surprise invasion of Suez by Britain and France, but unfortunately little has come of such proposals. The Atlantic Alliance might also form a useful body for coordinating military aid to other areas as well...