Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph M. Schwartz, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a member of DSOC, said last night that the group believes any loans to South Africa "help to prop up" the economy of that nation and strengthen the apartheid system...
...form PACs too. Since the mid-'70s, companies and their trade associations have formed some 1,200 of these committees. PACS contributed more than $60 million to the 1978 election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alone. The apparent impact thus far has been not to strengthen conservatives as such but simply to strengthen incumbents, since the PACS tend to give to officeholders who offer some political clout in Congress. Despite highly visible turnovers in Congress, 96% of the House members were returned to Washington...
Cohen, presently manager of the linen service, said yesterday that HSA must strengthen its appeal to the Harvard community by showing "we're not just a bartending course or a place to rent refrigerators; we provide many essential services to students...
Many economists believe that money growth must be slowed or inflation will never subside, and the dollar will never strengthen more than momentarily (a good many of the newly created dollars find their way overseas and are sold on the money exchanges for other currencies). Officially, at least, the Fed agrees. It has been trying to move interest rates up enough to discourage borrowing, so that it will not be under pressure to add so much to bank reserves in order to meet the demand...
...reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against Israel, and sent a four-man delegation to meet Sadat in hopes of persuading him to give up his peace initiative. But Sadat refused to see them, declaring that "billions of dollars will not buy the will of Egypt. We have taken the difficult road to peace...