Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a good week for Romney, either. Earlier, he futilely tried to explain away his recent description of Percy as an "opportunist" (what he meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
Penfield also argued that children control the growth of their own brains. "By selecting to what he will attend, the child conditions his own cortex," he said. "As the years pass, the child, with the help of mothers and teachers, may be said to create his own brain mechanisms...
...scale and coordination of sector growth--in providing underdeveloped countries with transportation, communications, and other requirements for economic take-off. The President should also have realized that practical regionalism involves considerable political sacrifices to development criteria on the part of both Congress and recipient countries. Congress might have to help a somewhat unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other small states. On the other hand, small states might have to overcome...
...Self-help is the third Johnson proposal to make foreign aid more efficient. This cry--"help instead of money"--has been heard before. Drawing directly from Ambassador to Ethiopia Korry's report on African development, Johnson said that America should provide technical assistance rather than money in fields like agricultural techniques, health services and population control...
...proposals appealing to Congress. Regionalism will please those Congressmen who have always felt there are too many little countries to keep track of in Asia and Africa. Multilateralism will appease those who see spoiled, stingy Europeans leaving the United States to care for the whole world. And help instead of money is a sure winner with Congressmen concerned about the balance of payments, interested in promoting domestic agriculture and fishing, or just plain grumbly about the idea of giving money away...