Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the early excitement, the campaign rapidly settled down into a dull, listless affair, and it has remained so ever since. The candidates rarely seem to speak the same language. Hogan discusses crime and maintains his "liberalism;" Keating defends Eisenhower's Formosa policy and makes a pointless offer to investigate the Atlanta temple bombing (before a Jewish audience, of course). Harriman attacks the Eisenhower administration and accuses Rockefeller of "posing as a liberal;" Rockefeller says Harriman is "boss dominated" and claims he will "anticipate problems instead of waiting for them to occur...
...Chinese presented another face. If Washington was prepared to remove "the thorn in the side of peace" so long as force was not employed, what was Washington ready to offer now that force was no longer being used against Quemoy? The Reds challenged Secretary of State Dulles to make good on his implicit offer to persuade Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to withdraw at least part of his forces from the offshore islands. Since Chiang and his ministers have repeatedly proclaimed they will do nothing of the kind, and in fact last week sent at least...
...good segment of the population, of course, is covered under one plan or another, the best known being Blue Cross and Blue Shield. But policies like these offer only partial coverage to those insured. Even after an insurance corporation has defrayed medical expenses, the remaining costs can very easily be staggering. Doctors' and nurses' fees, extended treatment or psychiatric care will impose expenses that can burden a family with immense debts. In addition, poor risks, like old people, are not covered under private insurance plans, and local or state clinic facilities are necessarily limited. Modern standards of social responsibility, however...
...University should act to improve the status of the speech arts at Harvard. Not only should more courses be given, but more positions of tenure should be established, better facilities provided, and more degree and concentration credit given. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences should not refuse to offer a course merely because it possesses pragmatic value. The ability to communicate one's education to the public is a skill deserving attention if Harvard wishes to have any influence on the outside world...
Despite the lack of a regular lightweight coach, training of both experienced and inexperienced squads is apparently going satisfactorily, the freshman coaches concur. Because of the low salary offered a lightweight coach, some members of the freshman staff seem to feel that volunteer graduate coaches may offer the only practical solution to the problem of training lightweight crews...