Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unification of the Portuguese community in Cambridge has been a less-than-successful undertaking for the COPA organizers. The pressures to assimilate, though declining, are still strong in the Cambridge Portuguese community, and these forces have hampered COPA's efforts to foster Portuguese ethnic identity and political organization...
...sure, buildings still cannot be heated to over 68° F., gasoline stations must shut down on Sundays and holidays, and neon lights are banned after business hours. But those measures, says Toshinobu Wada, an official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, remain merely "to foster a psychology of energy conservation...
...nine seconds mark, two buckets by Jim Foster put Connecticut ahead 75-74 before Berwanger's game-winning goal...
...demand other fantastic "signs of good faith" before releasing their captive?if it ever does. Patricia hinted in her first message that there is "an analogy" between her abduction and the police capture of two suspected S.L.A. members now charged with the murder last November of Dr. Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of schools in Oakland. Authorities expect that Patricia's kidnapers may well ultimately demand their release. Beyond that, some law-enforcement officials despair that, following the skyjacking syndrome, the S.L.A.'s sudden notoriety may already have loosed the seed of example for future senseless terrorism?even if, like...
...institutions: the Japan Society, founded in 1907, and the Asia Society, both of which have an impeccable track record of succinct, informative exhibitions. The concerns have a trustee in common: John D. Rockefeller III, 67, who became a collector of Oriental art after a trip to Japan with John Foster Dulles in 1951 and in 1956 founded the Asia Society. Last week it was announced that Rockefeller, in stepping down from the society's chairmanship, had given it his collection and promised to foot the bill for housing it in a new and larger Asia House in Manhattan. Says...