Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter where it appeared, the document was hardly compelling reading. A wordy piece of revolutionary rhetoric, the manifesto excoriated Owens-Illinois as "one of the many multinationals that plunder the country" and called for Venezuelans to "strengthen their fight for socialism." Nonetheless, the episode apparently enraged the Perez regime. After a Cabinet meeting, the Information Minister announced that the government had "decided to acquire the stock"-meaning expropriation-of the Owens-Illinois subsidiary because it had "offended the dignity of the country and promoted the subversion of our constitutional order...
Harvard's director of development will assume a new position this summer in a move designed to strengthen the University's fund raising capabilities, the University announced yesterday...
...embarrassed. The Soviet press retorted weakly that Sadat's move was meaningless because the treaty was "paralyzed" in any case. There was no mention of the fact that only last month at the 25th Party Congress, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had dismissed rumors of rift and pledged to strengthen Soviet-Egyptian relations. The U.S. was quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt or finance the Aswan...
...that our program will benefit the group that we approach." In the East Asian Studies Program, for example, the University has been remarkably successful in convincing Japanese, Korean, and other East-Asian-based corporations that an East Asian center at Harvard will ultimately benefit these corporations because it will strengthen ties to the United States. In this same way a group of Korean business men has contributed $1 million for a chair in Modern Korean Economics and Society, hoping the chair will provide valuable training for students who will eventually return to Korea...
Deputy Treasury Secretary George Dixon last week told the House Banking Committee: "The time to act on this legislation has come." He added: "If we increase competition among financial institutions, we will enhance the quality and reduce the cost of financial services to consumers and at the same time strengthen the institutions themselves...