Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Foster Furcolo has proposed a more sweeping solution: imposition of a limited sales tax throughout the state. Receipts from this three per cent levy would be redistributed to the cities and towns of the commonwealth. In an effort to win Boston support for his proposal, Furcolo developed his program of redistribution so that the city would receive more than a generous share. It was said that such an indirect subsidy to Boston could cut the real estate levy--now $101.20--by as much as $20, a considerable improvement if possible...
...Cambridge Civic Association, a citizen's organization founded 14 years ago to foster the reform movement which had taken over the city several years before...
Thus during an "up" period in Harvard-Cambridge relations, a city administration sympathetic to the University ideal prevails. This is the general outlook Harvard tries, however subtly, to foster in Cambridge city government...
...steel companies bungled their campaign. First they asked too much: a sweeping grant of authority to change plant work rules in the name of "efficiency and economy." Then they failed to justify the demand. Company spokesmen charged that the work rules foster "featherbedding and loafing," but never supplied a solid example to document the charge or a solid specific on how the authority to change the rules would be used. When Mediator Taylor asked Bethlehem Steel Negotiator John Morse to explain just how the work rules created problems in particular mills, Morse replied that he was "afraid the panel would...
...John U. Monro, then Director of Financial Aid, H.S.A. was set up with three purposes in mind: to supervise established enterprises and promote new business ventures for the benefit of students in need of financial aid; to provide experience in the practical management of business affairs; and "to foster, encourage and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...