Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia's all-white government, which rules a black majority, declared last week that his country was growing stronger despite the United Nations sanctions against it. Though U.N. member states are supposed to boycott Rhodesian exports, Smith claimed that many countries of the free world were quietly helping Rhodesia. On the fourth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, Smith said that Rhodesia expects a 10% increase this year in its gross national product, "exceptional by any standard." But British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart recently told the House of Commons that Rhodesia...
...institute came through a real test. Violence didn't succeed in radicalizing the student body, and peaceful dissent is stronger than ever. I believe this had significance for this institution -and for every other." So said Howard W. Johnson, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reflecting last week on M.I.T.'s success in coping with the recent demonstrations against the institute's deep involvement in Pentagon-backed defense research (TIME, Nov. 14). The rainy New England weather helped to dampen the militants. But it was Johnson's own administrative acumen that defused what could have...
...Some of us wanted a stronger gesture of protest, but we've decided to leave the dining hall at this time to demonstrate our opposition to the policies of the University toward the community, and against its complicity with the Federal government." Seder said...
...there was encouragement in the performance by Harvard captain Keith Colburn, who finished third Monday. He was running second before being passed by the Wildcats' Walsh and had hopes of catching him, but the fast early pace had tired him too much to get to Walsh, who is a stronger distance man. Colburn's time was over a minute better than his clocking last year, when he finished 18th...
...give a great deal to have problems such as this. After all, we still do have a strategic reserve when many similar institutions, and other faculties at Harvard, do not. On the other hand, it does seem clear to me that the legitimate pressures that increase our expenses seem stronger than our ability to produce offsetting income, and that this condition will persist at least for the next few years. If this is correct, then the erosion of the Instruction Fund to meet unrestricted operating deficits means the erosion of flexibility to meet educational challenge in the years just ahead...