Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Underdeveloped Nations. I did not say that foreign aid is not important in shaping the future of these countries. On the contrary, I argued for a very greatly expanded program (at least twice the present effort). What I did say pertained to the motivation which should animate us in three respects...
...reward extreme positions. This point was really an elaboration of the previous one. It was a criticism of a formalistic approach to negotiations which confuses negotiating techniques with purpose. My argument was that we should stop using slogans like compromise, flexibility or rigidity and debate the substance of the program to which they refer...
From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman...
Overriding all is what Hall wryly calls his "ten-point program'' for sales success: the first nine points are distribution. To get his cards into the stores and keep them there, he set up a sales system that replaced the helter-skelter collection of boxes under the counter with a long display rack that put the selection out in the open. Hallmark sells the display racks to retailers at cost, also assumes responsibility for keeping the store's stock-both from Hallmark and from competitors-up-to-date, re-ordering when the cards...
Immigration to crack production bottlenecks and bring new blood to the isolated country was another big factor. A third was a huge public works program that has spent $1.2 billion to standardize the nation's chaotic five-gauge railroad system, build new airports, roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and heavy utilities needed as a foundation for industry. The government's giant $1 billion hydroelectric project in the Snowy Mountains south of Canberra is already producing power, will ultimately generate 3,000,000 kw. and provide 1,800,000 acre feet of irrigation water for the states of Victoria...