Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert on Latin American economic development has been named to a chair in the School of Public Administration, and funds have been secured for a new chair of Latin American literature. These two moves to strengthen the study of Latin America here leave "just two or three more pieces to fall into place" before the University will have a strong program in that field, according to Dean Ford...
...Most Important Step." The President signed into law the tax-cut bill, 13 long months after Congress first took it up. "It is the single most important step that we have taken to strengthen our economy since World War II," Johnson told a nationwide television audience after the signing. When it goes into effect this week, he said, it will give U.S. consumers an extra $25 million a day to spend, and Lyndon urged them to spend it, by all means...
...University has launched a concerted effort to strengthen graduate and undergraduate studies in the area of linguistics, Calvert W. Watkins, Chairman of the Department of Linguistics, said yesterday...
Number two player Romer Holleran returns to the lineup this week to strengthen the Harvard squash team that will defend its championship in the United States Squash Raquets Association tournament in Annapolis this weekend...
Governor of Martinique, and soon decamped with him for France. There, to strengthen her position, she contrived a marriage between Beauharnais's son Alexander and her niece, Josephine, just turned 16. When Alexander met his bride on her arrival at Brest, he wrote cautiously to his father: "Mademoiselle will perhaps seem less pretty to you than you expect." She was, in fact, an awkward, unschooled girl from the colonies. Alexander tried, without success, to teach his wife to spell and to tutor her in history, but soon lost interest and was living away from home by the time their...