Word: twofold
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...internal document entirely: intended for the Secretary of Labor, the President, and the members of their staffs who would accept or reject its proposals and implications. A hundred copies were produced, but with on expectation of using even that few. The objectives of the report were twofold. First: to argue the need for seizing the opportunity of the moment to make the kind of commitment the President did in fact subsequently make. Second: to urge consideration of a new and different kind of policy, in addition to the more familiar ones--namely, a national family policy...
...agricultural scientist, the world's exploding population combines with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim...
...problem is twofold: black radical ideologues are having more trouble than other civil rights leaders attracting white money and even more trouble justifying taking...
...threat is twofold. One area involves deliberate efforts to get information about the individual, often by technical means that have become starkly efficient. The problem raised is legal and moral: When is such snooping justified in the interests of society and how should it be controlled...
...President's plan has basically a twofold purpose: to bring decent living conditions within the reach of poor families and to begin clearing up urban slums and breaking up ghettos. Under the proposal, a family whose net worth does not exceed $2,000 a year (or $5,000 for the elderly) would be asked to spend one-fourth of its income on rent; the Federal government would make up the difference on the rent charged. Only buildings owned by non-profit or limited dividend organizations (unions or churches, for example) would be subsidized. By thus supplementing its existing public housing...