Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strengthen cost incentives, the group recommended that incentives be determined by an objective board after a given weapons contract had been completed. The more efficient the performance the higher would be the profit. Furthermore, they advised that past performance be taken into account when awarding new contracts. High-performance contractors would be rewarded by a rapid rise in their share of the defense awards...
...Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into him before being chased away by Laurel's own bodyguard. The threat of violence has become so serious that President Ferdinand Marcos has sent detachments of the federal Constabulary into Manila and Batangas to strengthen understaffed local police forces, may send the troopers into other cities as well...
Richard E. Caves, professor of Economics and chairman of the department, commented, "It's hard to think of any other appointment that would do as much to strengthen the department...
Huntington opposes the idea of immediate negotiations--"there is nothing to negotiate right now"--or of a unilateral bombing pause on the part of the South or the U.S. without "a strong likelihood of a constructive result." An unsuccessful bombing pause, he feels, would only strengthen the hand of the hawks, and "the net result is likely to be a vast escalation spurred by popular impatience...
Carroll will be taking over a financially solvent and smoothly running Press. He said yesterday, "My endeavor will be to continue and strengthen the significance and importance of the Press as the publishing arm of the University...