Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial limitations. The plan first won financial support from the Conservation Foundation and now operates under funds from Resources for the Future, an affiliate of the falling Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation recently gave the officials of the program considerable cause for rejoicing by agreeing to renew its grant for another three years...
...substitute, to rearm and grant sovereignty to West Germany under a different set of agreements, was conceived by Britain's Foreign Minister Anthony Eden one morning in his bathtub. Last October in Paris, with the help of Dulles and of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (the Man of 1953), Eden got his alternative plan approved at the foreign-minister level. Many military men discovered that they liked Eden's Western European Union, with its appeal to nationalism, better than EDC, with its emphasis on European political unity. The Communists testified to the plan's potential: they fought as desperately against...
...variety of drugs. Doctors can now point to youngsters with acute leukemia who are living happily and almost normally three years or more after the disease struck. A diagnosis of acute leukemia is still a sentence of death, but each discovery prolongs the reprieves that medicine can grant. Doctors hope that they may soon find a way to prolong the victims' lives indefinitely...
...With congressional permission, the Mellon grant was deposited in the Treasury and guaranteed 4% interest. The Library of Congress gets 4% on a similar deposit, and the Smithsonian Institution draws...
Formerly, Government agencies were virtually required to grant a contract to a U.S. bidder if his bid was no more than 25% above that of a foreign bidder. Although the Administration has already lowered this percentage informally, on occasion (TIME, Nov. 29), the new regulations officially set a new differential of less than 10%. Under the new order, a domestic bid can be thrown out in favor of a foreign company if 1) the domestic bid is more than 106% of the foreign delivered price (including tariff, freight in the U.S., etc.), or 2) exceeds the delivered-price foreign...