Word: granting
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...reconstruction of the standard ROTC program is based on the idea that local situations demand different solutions. An all-volunteer Ivy unit will face different problems than a land-grant college, which has required ROTC. Hence, his solution claims to reduce the amount of on-campus time taken up by strict ROTC material...
...University yesterday anounced the receipt of a $285,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support a research and training program in science and public policy at the Graduate School of Public Administration...
...when it seemed that the senator from the Appomattox District wanted to secede again. Proclaimed Senator Charles T. Moses, waving a portrait of Robert E. Lee astride Traveller: "That's the man for states' rights! He didn't surrender! He just walked in to see General Grant, gave his hat to a courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making...
What changed Muñoz' mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress...
Leverett House has announced four awards in its second annual competition in creative writing. The contest is part of the House's Ford Foundation grant program...