Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet regional economic competition from the Communist bloc. In the current aid program, the President can spend $250 million a year in the place and manner he wishes, with few congressional restrictions. For the future, the Administration wants this authority expanded to $500 million a year. One proposed item in this fund: $100 million of nonmilitary aid for the troubled Middle East and Africa, so that the U.S. will "be in a position to act promptly to help governments in this area in their efforts to find solutions for economic and social problems...
...main courses most often served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner will appear on the ballots. Students will indicate by means of numbers beside each item whether (1) the dish is fully satisfactory and should be retained, (2) the dish should be retained if its quality is improved, (3) the dish should be retained if its preparation is improved, or (4) the dish should be eliminated...
Urban Renewal has gotten no farther. The city had promised the Federal Government to hire an Urban Renewal Coordinator, appoint an Urban Renewal Authority, and set up an agency to enforce the Housing code, all by October 1955. It has thus far done nothing except put a token item in the budget for a Coodinator, and delay action. The city manager, like Diogenes, is looking for a man. The trouble is that he wants a good man to take a bad job, and like Diogenes, the problem is insoluble...
...Item to India...
Also, the assertion that "Saint Joan' will be put on Aug. 6-25 as the third and final item in the drama festival" is "completely unofficial and unauthorized," according to Hunt. "The question of whether the Cambridge Drama Festival will be a reality this summer is still unsettled; there are no certainties," Hunt emphasized...