Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit by Dow. A petition circulated at registration yesterday and signed by over 400 students, according to Mark Dyen '70 who helped collect the signatures, calls on President Pusey to ban the visits of Dow and the Institute for Defense Analyses. This petition, Dyen said, was intended to "strengthen the hand" of those on the Council who are in favor of recommending the ban. Dow is scheduled to recruit on February 23, under the auspices of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans. The October Dow visit was sponsored by the Chemistry Department...
Named to succeed Schultze was an other New Economist-Charles J. Zwick, 41, a former Harvard professor and Assistant Budget Director for two years. An expert in Government reorganization, Zwick aims to consolidate and strengthen the programs that Johnson has won from Congress...
...effort to strengthen the economy, Castro has tried one fruitless scheme after another. He built a new, modern commercial-fishing fleet of 300 boats, then found that most Cubans simply do not care for fish. He expanded cattle herds, but the distribution system is so bad that most of the beef still is not reaching Cuban tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt...
...ship-line merger, Davies believes that it will "strengthen all the organizations involved just when rapid technological change in the maritime industry makes such strength essential." Some possible obstacles still loom. The Justice Department contends that the Maritime Commission lacked jurisdiction to approve the merger. Either Justice or rival ship lines could sue to block the deal...
...petition demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...