Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means only in the South. This formula might lose Northeastern states?but it might also attract significant numbers of disgruntled voters in the North. This plan is reinforced by the echoes of riots past and prospective. A bloody battle was raging in a Negro area just across Biscayne Bay from Convention Hall. Each ghetto upheaval will make things tougher for the Democrats this year...
...House of Representatives may thwart the Senate plan. Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins says that OEO's future will be determined "by its good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate...
...frosty that, when the Irish government recently offered them joint use of a veterinary school, the colleges balked at sharing the same faculty and instead created overlapping, independent staffs. Now, however, Ireland's Ministry of Education has taken a major step toward ending the rivalry. Under a plan of union revealed last month, the two schools will be merged to create a new entity, the University of Dublin, by the fall...
...next decade is expected to nearly double, from 15,911 to 27,000. The merger will end a costly duplicating of facilities. Ireland has no nuclear reactor, for example, because it could not in the past afford to build one at each university. Under the government's plan, both schools will keep their separate liberal arts faculties. Trinity is to be responsible for all work in biological sciences, law and medicine; University College will take over the physical sciences, engineering and business school programs. Students at both campuses will have access to Trinity's magnificent...
...plan is almost certain to be approved by the dail (assembly), largely because the government pays two-thirds of the budgets of both schools. "Once the universities begin to accept the idea as a fait accompli," says Education Minister Brian Lenihan, "they will begin to concentrate on how better to make it work." The fact that the merger could be proposed at all, without creating a religious civil war, is an impressive measure of how far Ireland has come in burying its angry past...