Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trade Agreements Act), the charter under which the executive branch occasionally makes moderate cuts in U.S. tariffs if other countries make cuts in their tariffs on U.S. imports. The President asked Congress to: 1) extend the act for "a minimum" of five years instead of the usual three, 2) grant him the authority to cut tariffs as much as 10% a year-but not more than 25% over the five-year period...
Many Government officials are aware that statistics could be improved by wider coverage and the speeding-up of reporting. But improvements have been blocked to date by congressional reluctance to grant the necessary funds, even though they amount to only a few million dollars
Last week, before submitting his new 1959 budget, the President asked Congress for an extra $1.3 billion to spend in fiscal 1958 for speeding up ballistic-missile and missile-detection programs, dispersing Strategic Air Command bases. This new request, which Congress is sure to grant with no audible outcry, brought the spending estimate for the year to $72.8 billion...
...Ford Foundation grant of $125,000 has enabled Harvard to establish a new program designed to improve and further the teaching of Far Eastern studies in the liberal arts colleges throughout the nation...
...School of Public Administration will also use the Foundation grant to train government officials from underdeveloped areas, and for research on the recent economic history of China...