Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to continue contact with world-wide student movements, as well as to strengthen the free world's ISC, asserts the "liberal" wing of NSA, American students should continue to accept world-wide student issues as their own. The more conservative group which favors the textual meaning of the moderately-worded resolutions, frequently contributes negative votes on the grounds that as a student organization the NSA lacks the qualifications to judge an issue...
With a national vote of confidence to strengthen his hand, Harold Macmillan is likely to do some reshuffling of his political first team in the months ahead. Some top Tories and their prospects...
...noted Mannix, is the only major nation with no Government-controlled health plan. And it will have such a plan tomorrow, he prophesied gloomily, unless action is taken today to strengthen the voluntary medical system of which voluntary hospitals are a key component...
...Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana persuaded him to become secretary of an advisory committee to strengthen U.S. loan agencies. Brand helped draft the law that expanded the Export-Import Bank's role and lending authority, made it autonomous under a board of directors. He moved into the Eximbank as a director. In 1956 Brand performed his biggest coup by persuading a group of Government agencies and eleven private banks to grant an unprecedented $329 million loan to help stabilize the Argentine economy after Peron's fall...
...exceeded earlier industry forecasts. With record six-month sales of $621 million, Sinclair Oil Corp. boosted profits to $1.76 per share, v. $1.45 in the first half last year. Second-half prospects, noted Sinclair Chairman P. C. Spencer, are even brighter. Said he: "In July gasoline prices began to strengthen appreciably, and if this trend can be maintained, it is reasonable to expect that the remainder of 1959 should continue to show improvement...