Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private enterprise might have seemed startling a few months ago, but at the conference it was the unchallenged wisdom echoed by speakers of many viewpoints. Former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, now head of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, coupled a persuasive appeal for steps to foster the development of new businesses with a wry observation that "an investment banker calling for a cut in capital gains taxes has all the credibility of Dracula asking for charitable contributions to the blood bank...
Washington entered the game in 1955 with the creation of the Baghdad pact, a virtual invention of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who envisioned the alliance as a Southwest Asian counterpart of NATO. The original members, in addition to Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, were Iraq and Britain; the U.S. was an associate member. Iraq was dropped after a radical leftist government came to power in 1958, and the alliance moved its headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara. The diplomats and generals who renamed the organization CENTO presumably never bothered to check the dictionary, which defines "cento" as "a patchwork...
...organism, or one closely resembling it, was found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...
...Machine in Cincinnati. The Reds have hung tight all season despite a below par year from one of baseball's alltime great pitchers, Tom Seaver, and injuries to former M.V.P.s, such as Catcher Johnny Bench and Second Baseman Joe Morgan. Last year's M.V.P., George Foster, is leading the league in RBls. The hottest news around Cincinnati lately has been Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, one of the major reasons why the Reds have clung so close to the lead. If Seaver should get back to form and Morgan and Bench revive, the Reds could...
...Roman Catholics mourned their Pontiff, Paul's final directive was released. It exemplified both the simplicity and the spirituality of the man. Paul left most of his modest possessions to the Holy See. He also made some requests. Referring to the ecumenical movement he did so much to foster, he urged: "The work of drawing closer to our separated brethren should continue with great understanding, with great patience, and with great love, but without deviating from the true Catholic doctrine." Regarding his own funeral, he asked, "Let it be as simple as possible ... The grave: I would like...