Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned to the people's fears of increased taxation, of violence in the streets, of dissent on the campus. No state leader encourages the people to have pride in their great university, to build and strengthen the fine state colleges...
...holdouts are showing some give -and take. Brigham Young lets its professors accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe...
Though politics is the art of compromise, the bill owes much to the stubbornness of one Congresswoman from St. Louis. Democratic Representative Leonor Sullivan, an eight-term veteran who lost battle after battle to strengthen the measure in committee hearings, carried her lonely but vigorous fight to the floor of the House, finally won with an overwhelming 382-to-4 vote...
...hand, Sizer points out, "Plans to strengthen the police and National Guard are now more in the Federal rhetoric than those to strengthen the schools...
...opposes the Vietnam war? The Peace Corps is funded by the Congress because it is to the American people without doubt the most popular from of foreign involvement. To reject the Peace Corps on the grounds of the war is to restrict the American experience to war, not to strengthen the belief in peace; to obstruct progress in public opinion far more than to obstruct...