Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation announced today a $12.5-million grant to Harvard to strengthen the University's program in international affairs. The grant is the largest single gift in Harvard's history...
...their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering 58 of them at an eventual cost of $1 billion. Concluded he: "This will greatly increase our mobility, greatly reduce our reaction time and thereby greatly strengthen our capability to meet crises wherever and whenever they may occur...
Wilson and Johnson agreed that the main purpose of MLF, whatever its ultimate form, was to stem nuclear proliferation. Explained Wilson: "The main emphasis has been on our determination to strengthen and unify the joint nuclear responsibilities of our partners and ourselves in such a way as to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons." Without MLF, this reasoning goes, West Germany might eventually demand its own nuclear force; De Gaulle's incipient force de frappe is enough of a NATO headache...
With Resignation. The U.S. had little choice but to do what it did, and it moved with skill and speed. The British raised their discount rate from 5% to 7% to strengthen the pound against banks and corporations that were dumping it in fear of possible devaluation, and against speculators who sold short in the hope that the pound would be devalued and they could later buy it back at depressed prices. The rise meant that the British rate would be twice as high as the 31% U.S. rate, and, as one Swiss banker put it, "7% would drag money...
...example, Calvert explained that the extension of Polaris missiles to NATO powers would weaken our position militarily, but may strengthen it politically...