Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HENRY H. FOSTER...
...result, the traditional airframe industry broadened into today's aerospace industry, in which such non-planemakers as IBM, Bendix and General Electric play critical roles. Soon a new business climate emerged. At the top, the Pentagon made shrewd use of its monopsony-one customer but many suppliers-to foster competition. To meet the unsparing military demand for excellence, companies undertook research and development on a hitherto undreamed of scale; today engineers and scientists constitute a third of Lockheed's work force against only 5% during World War II. Bidding for big contracts became so costly that companies began...
...world's big powers have been battling quietly for months over how to improve the mechanisms for bankrolling international trade and investment. Their aim: to foster world prosperity, which could be damaged unless the amount of money available to finance world trade keeps pace with trade's growth. Last week, Washington's money managers sniffed a scent of victory for some of their ideas about accomplishing that aim through world monetary reform...
...died six days after Peter's birth, it was the Harrimans who took care of the baby while the disconsolate Eddy went on extended concert tours and served a four-year hitch in the Navy. Eventually, though they never legally adopted him, the Harrimans became Peter's foster parents...
...past ten years, 5,670 mixed-blood children have been adopted by families in the U.S. through such groups as the Holt Adoption Program, the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Child Placement Service. But the vast majority of these children are the offspring of white G.I.s. Finding foster parents for Negro-fathered children is much harder. With that in mind, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation began operating in Korea just last month. Its initial hopes are modest: to provide funds directly to mothers of Negro-Korean children so that the little lost half-castes will have at least some...