Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement news source in disputes. The Mole's credibility among other factions of the Boston Movement was also seriously challenged last spring by the revelation by PL Magazine and the Boston Globe that the Mole was partly financed by a front corporation, Cambridge Iron and Steel, underwritten by a Newton businessman...
...constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program of public works in African villages, and won enough approval from Rhodesia's blacks for nationalist guerrillas to be regularly turned in by their own people...
When it comes to housing, the nation's largest and wealthiest city lives in an Alice in Wonderland world. Mostly since World War II, federal, state and city governments have underwritten some $8 billion worth of housing construction in New York City - enough to accommodate the entire population of, for example, Baltimore or Cleveland. Yet at the same time, New York's housing scarcity has not only persisted but worsened. In the hard marketplace of supply and demand, that means soaring rents...
...important innovation, mothered out of necessity after the U.S. began curbing its money exports, is the big and free "Eurobond" market, which rallies currencies from many countries. Conceived and usually underwritten by Wall Street bankers, the bonds are floated for borrowers as diverse as South Africa's De Beers, France's state-run P.T.T. telecommunications monopoly, and U.S. subsidiaries abroad. They are sold to oil sheiks and other wealthy individuals, and reportedly, the United Nations pension fund and the Vatican. From almost nothing in 1963, the volume of these bonds rose to $2.1 billion last year, mostly...
...Underwritten by a grant from TIME, the tour will bring together panels of such leading foreign-affairs experts as Political Scientist Robert Scalapino, Teodoro Moscoso, former coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, and Wayne Fredericks of the Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World...