Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other message was that Germans must do their utmost to strengthen their new alliance with France, since the two nations' basic interests are "identical." Adenauer now had perfunctory praise for the U.S. allies, whom he had once hailed as "the best Europeans of all"; the British he had scornfully dismissed as only "half-friends...
Many Republicans have raised political objections to the sale. Senator Goldwater accuses the President of establishing a "Soviet-American mutual aid society," and former vice-President Nixon claims we are "hurting the cause of freedom." Instead, the President's decision will strengthen recent attempts to case world tension. The Russians need grain and the United States has too much; common ground has been found and the opportunity for a further Cold War thaw should not be bypassed...
...railroads with merger applications before the Interstate Commerce Commission, none are more eager to unite than the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central. The Central lost $4.4 million and the Pennsy $1.1 million during 1963's first half. Both badly need to strengthen their competitive positions, particularly since the rich Chesapeake & Ohio has already gained ICC approval to control the Baltimore & Ohio, and the well-run Norfolk & Western appears certain to win an O.K. to merge with the Wabash and Nickel Plate...
...crazy military idea," mused a British Cabinet minister, "ever make good political sense?" Yes indeed, thinks the Kennedy Administration, which is convinced that the plan for a NATO multilateral Polaris fleet with mixed al lied crews is the only practical way to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance while satisfying Europe's eagerness to play a bigger role in their own nuclear defense...
During the first five years of NDEA the government paid out $181 million to the states, on a 50-50 matching basis, to strengthen instruction in science, math, and modern languages in elementary and secondary schools. The Office of Education reports that in this period the number of language labs in high schools jumped from 46 to almost 6,000; under another provision of the Act nearly 14,000 public school teachers received instruction in modern foreign language institutes...