Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France Flight 180 will leave Paris on Mondays at 11 a.m., stop in Athens, Cairo, Teheran, Karachi and Pnompenh, and wind up in Shanghai at 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Air France does not expect to make money on the service, but by extending its route miles it will strengthen its claim to the slogan, "The world's largest airline...
That plan duplicates most of last April's proposals, including a long-range building program and a pledge to strengthen "compensatory education" and open-enrollment policies which the city has already adopted. The only significant change is the insertion of the METCO plan for busing Negro children to the suburbs...
...will have to make do with NATO as best as it can, but it certainly can strengthen what is left of it. It ought to untangle the twisted chains of command, solidify the bifurcated military and political committees and modernize the World War II-style deployment of its forces. Some experts believe that, in the long run, NATO may come to resemble the structure of the Holy Roman Empire, rich in form and legal ties but sparse in substance. Henry Kissinger of Harvard's Center for International Affairs reflects the views of many Americans when he says...
...assuming the position, Selker said, he will continue the general policies he has had as coordinator of studies. He will maintain his of forts to strengthen and widen the undergraduate program at the Center...
Still, Ceausescu has something to gain merely by causing tremors in the Iron Curtain. At the Soviet 23rd Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...