Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point is the need for other free nations to join the U.S. in foreign aid programs. "No one nation, even with the legendary strength of an Atlas, could long support the world on its shoulders," said he. "The free nations of the world, motivated by both humanitarianism and self-interest, should cooperate voluntarily in a long-range program aimed at helping the presently less-privileged peoples work step by step toward a better life. Every nation should contribute to the common enterprise in whatever...
...pockets quite so often as has been the case in the past. (An example that still gravels Washington: in recent years the West German government has underwritten some $2 billion worth of West German sales to underdeveloped countries at terms so stiff-repayment in four years, 6% or more interest-that time and again the U.S. has been obliged to bail out the overcommitted debtor with a dollar loan...
...course in American institutions and organizing a mock election. "It was very significant to note that the difference in the prisoners' ability to make something out of the experience was not social or economic background, but education." The prison camp marked the beginning, Barnes says, of his great interest in education...
...Student Council reports favored the more restricted interpretation of the phrase "students as students." The report recognized the fact that "our relations with foreign student unions demand that we take an interest in their problems, which are often of a political nature...
...eight observers who attended this summer's National Student Congress will urge the College to rejoin NSA and establish a permanent committee "to activate student interest" in the organization...