Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million, and is running far ahead of that pace so far in 1968. President William C. Norris has had to scramble for the cash to keep the expansion going. Commercial Credit's resources should help Norris increase computer sales abroad, also provide the financing his company needs to strengthen its position in the competitive -and lucrative-leasing field...
...rush of financially healthy companies toward new partners is the result of a "merger neurosis." Others think that it is not neurotic at all. "The time is ripe for mergers," argues Yawata President Yoshihiro Inayama, 64. "Intensification of international competition makes it imperative for Japanese firms to strengthen their internal structures...
...COMMITTEE'S most delicate problem in suggesting ways to strengthen the community was what to say about Cambridge. The University's relations with the City have been improving in recent years, and there have been signs of a thaw in the Cambridge School Committee's traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last...
...Enoch Powell is entitled to his bigot views [May 3]. What infuriates me is the 79% of Britons who support these views. Along with their austerity program to strengthen the country's gross national product, Britons ought to participate in the weakening of another G.N.P., that of gross national prejudice...
Well aware that the U.S. trade plight may only strengthen the protectionist mood in Congress, 16 industrial countries* last week offered some extraordinary help. They volunteered to speed up a portion of their scheduled Kennedy Round tariff cuts while allowing the U.S. to delay its own cuts. This tariff advantage would give the U.S. trade balance a lift through 1969 estimated at $300 million...