Word: strengthening
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Another reason for the changes, according to Bold, was the desire to strengthen the Program for Harvard College. "The President of the University has told us that he still needs $25 million," Bold said. "The President feels that a really topnotch football team might stimulate some of those slow-footed alumni...
...gloom of the '57-'58 recession, many a U.S. railroad sought merger partners to strengthen its condition. For 14 months the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 roads, talked, thought and studied. Last week the Central flashed the red board. It announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among...
...representative character of the Combined Charities Drive can, perhaps best be accomplished within the new Student Council. The new Council is now elected from House constituencies; it is a body more accessible to the average student, who probably knows his representative. The members appointed by the Masters also will strengthen the Council's ties in each of the Houses. Removing the charities appeal from Council auspices will not make the drive more representative, but rob it of an institutional framework already existing...
...fact that even 13 years of joint servitude to Moscow has not wiped out the ancient hostility between Poles and Germans. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, bundled up against Warsaw's icy wind, greeted Ulbricht with the promise that "we will do all in our power to strengthen the international position of the German Democratic Republic.'' In return, Walter Ulbricht declared that he brought with him "the indestructible friendship of the German people...
...arrests of Nasser's supporters would strengthen one group more than any other in Iraq: the Communists, who have intrigued their way into key positions in Kassem's regime. Increasingly dependent on the Reds, relying on the Soviets for trade deals as well as for planes and guns, Karim Kassem, a politically inexperienced soldier, was furthering a real conspiracy against his regime while persuading himself that he had foiled a different...