Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair facilities, strengthen antiaircraft defenses, and beef up their forces south of the 17th parallel...
...pipes with beer, Eileen Farrell quaffs warm Coca-Cola and follows it with burping exercises, Gwyneth Jones takes hot and cold showers and yawns a lot. The rage for eating raw garlic is so popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol can of deodorant. Tenor Franco Corelli thoughtfully combines his raw-meat and garlic diet with nibbles on a bouquet of parsley between scenes...
...White House wanted a Comptroller who would carry on Saxon's expansionist policies but consolidate more than innovate. Camp promises "no drastic changes" immediately, but expects to push training programs for bank examiners, expand automation in banking, strengthen the supervision of foreign banks, and continue Saxon's chartering and merger designs, though at a reduced clip. Merely to digest what Saxon bit off will keep Camp fully occupied. His office is involved in six antitrust suits concerning bank mergers. The trend in the courts so far has been to support the Comptroller against the Attorney General, ruling...
...range of work we do in engineering has no duplicate at Caltech-their whole school is smaller than our electrical-engineering department." Caltech's President Lee A. DuBridge, who headed M.I.T.'s radar-producing Radiation Laboratory in World War II, says that Caltech is now trying to strengthen its engineering and M.I.T. is building its science departments so that "we have steadily become more like one another." He is smoothly confident, however, that Caltech will be able "to maintain a nonindustrial, unhurried, even nonmetropolitan atmosphere of informality and intimacy...
Having muffed its chance to prevent disaster cheaply, the Lebanese government drafted a law allocating $17 million to pay off Intra's small depositors. Then at last it began considering how to strengthen the supervision of its banks...