Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shuman's suggested amendments are designed to strengthen the link between the five-man executive committee and the rest of the HDC members. Several members called them innocuous yesterday, and they quickly voted to mail ballots...
...American insistence on bombing the North will likely strengthen Ho's resolve to persist for at least several more years. His experiences at Geneva in 1954 and with the French at the end of World War II make him understandably leery of talks with the West. And Johnson's apparent attempt to weaken the North Vietnamese bargaining hand will only reinforce his reluctance to deal with the United States...
According to Legal Aid President Davis R. Robinson, the new plan might increase membership from the present 38 to as many as 50 students. "It is primarily an attempt to strengthen the weak link of our summer program," Robinson said. "It will allow students to be elected to membership on the basis of demonstrated interest and ability, rather than on grades alone," he noted...
...stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender of university autonomy. Insisting that he will not be "a mere housekeeper," he vowed to "maintain and strengthen the non- political character of the university" while the regents undertake a nationwide search for a successor to Kerr-a task that could well take months...
...generations and it now also requires additional endowment for a number of purposes: to provide more fellowship support for students, to bring its inadequate level of faculty salaries closer to the general University standard, to establish professorships in new areas of concern, and properly to care for and strengthen its invaluable library collections. More than $4 million of the $6 million needed for the building has now been raised. (This includes a construction grant of a little more than $2 million granted on a matching basis by the Office of Education of the Federal Government). And approximately $2.5 million...