Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This uniform commitment to progress makes things difficult for the independent Councillors. They are not devoid of ideas or desirable civic improvements, particularly items of largely neighborhood importance which the CCA could overlook. But if CCA Councillors do not offer their support, the independents must form temporary alliances, often by trading votes with their fellows. There are always more or less permanent alliances within this group, but these are sometimes unreliable. Not infrequently the independent Councillor must choose between the CCA's plan for progress, or no plan...
...Carnegie Corporation has continued to offer generous support for the writing of this book and the other work of the Center. From the funds available, the Executive Committee (appointed by the Corporation) can allocate money for individual research projects submitted by scholars both inside and outside the University. The Committee does not seek to plug gaps in Soviet research systematically but merely accepts the most worthwhile projects that are suggested...
...these one-month visits offer only a limited opportunity for scholars. Fainsod says that the visitor generally must follow the route set up by Intourist, the state travel agency...
...experience in Munich through study and by work for a few weeks "with a second-rate opera company, one which traveled from village to village presenting operas." As recipient of the Paine Traveling Fellowship in Music during 1958-59, he studied at the Munich Conservatory--and even gained an offer of a job conducting an orchestra for Siemens Electric, "the General Electric of Germany...
...traced the path of his career around his office wall. "After that, I went to the University of California at Los Angeles, where I taught for three years, and then I became Tagore Professor of Law in India, at Calcutta University. Then, the Law School was good enough to offer me my quarters here. I am on a grant-in-aid that enables me to write and speak...