Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three leaders had gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to sign a treaty that creates a new East African Community. Though it stops far short of political unity, the new pact, if it works, will almost inevitably strengthen political ties. When it goes into effect next December, it will create a common market in which the vast bulk of goods produced in any of the three countries will not be subject to tariffs at the borders of the other two. A development bank with $36 million in capital will also be established to encourage industrialization, especially in Uganda...
...position is not a prediction that the world's artists will preach up a revolution, however much that thought may have been on his mind. He merely skewers the certain fact that a revolution, whether real or only plotted, can discipline art, and that the rhetoric of revolt can strengthen writing in a word poor century...
Throughout the negotiations, the venture had been discussed as a joint Spanish-American undertaking, with 45% going to the U.S. partner. But last March, when Madrid decided to strengthen its bid for a link with the Common Market, it seemed a good idea for Spain to show itself as Europe-oriented by offering Common Market companies a piece of the Sahara bonanza. That piece, of course, was to come out of the American share. I.M.C. was first to guess what was going on. Boldly, it lowered its demand for 45% participation...
...sang their verses in the marketplace. It exists once again in an ambiance of instant feeling. Poets are declaiming their works before large, theater-size audiences in the cities and on the campuses. Government grants, foundation funds and universities with chairs for poets-in-residence are all conspiring to strengthen or at least amplify their voices in the world at large. Their poetry books trip ever more briskly off the presses, and their phonograph recordings feed a flourishing market...
...Press was nearly annihilated during the war years, but financial windfalls and the struggles of supporters made Harvard decide to maintain and strengthen it. The Press now edits, designs and lays out, arranges for the printing of, promotes, and helps distribute all over the world more than 100 series of books, all of them good scholarly books...