Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Riklis, 45, completed a major step in that direction. In a somewhat serpentine financial maneuver, Riklis last December had Rapid-American Corp., the keystone of his corporate complex, make a friendly tender offer designed to strengthen his holding in Glen Alden Corp. Glen Alden is a onetime coal company that Riklis has been using for acquisitions in such areas as Playtex underwear, B.V.D. shorts and, most recently, Schenley Industries. The company had been under the rather tenuous control (14%) of McCrory Corp., a retailing outfit that is 51%-owned by Rapid-American. Thus, by exchanging Rapid securities worth...
...called refugee camps. The latter process, by the way, is deferentially referred to by some American intellectual as "urbanization." The retainale behind all of this is that once you get the country people "urbanized" they will not go back to the countryside, and that once you strengthen the South Vietnamese army, presumbaly it will be able to keep out the communists. Thus will have some basis for a negotiated settlement, probably with the Viet Cong controlling certain areas in the countryside and with the Allied side in control of the cities and towns...
...these assaults-cause heavy casualties and demonstrate that the Communists can still stage dramatic attacks on the big cities of South Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh thereby hopes to test the mettle of the young Nixon Administration by rekindling dissatisfaction with the war in the U.S., and to strengthen his bargaining hand in Paris. As the attacks continued on the President's return from his European tour, the country waited for him to speak. He did not waste much time in doing...
Coach Barnaby, although describing Terrell's present game as "a powerful forehand, a skillful backhand, and no weaknesses," predicts that the move to first seed should strengthen the junior's play even more...
...chairman of the North House Committee, said yesterday that "once Cliffies are aware of the nature of Harvard Houses, they can change 'Cliffe dorms to be more like the Houses." She added that such changes would make it easier for Harvard men to live at Radcliffe and would "strengthen 'Cliffe dorms...