Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOUD of financial restraint hangs over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department...
...French suggested four or five sites for the talks, including the old Hotel Majestic, which served as the Gestapo's Paris headquarters during World War II. More likely?and more remote?is either the Chateau de Champs on the Marne River or the Chateau de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, both set in wooded parks outside Paris...
...audience ovation. But, stubborn New England descendant of Mayflower pilgrims that he is, he refuses to bid for easy success with the latest fashions. For that reason, he has had to settle for the high esteem of colleagues and critics, and the reputation of a Zeus on a cloud-cloaked Olympus doing his own thing, virtually daring the multitudes to like...
...acquiring its assets and offices. Undone, Andrew makes one more commercial, this one about Truth. The night of a banquet for the Creativity in Advertising awards, he unreels it-a naive diatribe against planned obsolescence that includes footage of a bulldozer shoveling bodies at Buchenwald and an atomic mushroom cloud rising while a little girl sings All Things Bright and Beautiful...
...money," says Lapin. Ultimately the corporation would be controlled by its 9,598 private stockholders* subject to a few important policy guidelines set by HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, the present chairman of FNMA's board of directors. Most important of all, the change would remove a cloud that looms over the agency's ability to continue operating. Under the Government's new budgetary bookkeeping, all of Fannie Mae's mortgage purchases add to the already large federal deficit...