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This week, most of his groundwork completed, McNamara broke his silence. The occasion was the 23rd annual meeting, in Washington, of the board of governors who represent the bank's 110 member nations. Delivering the keynote speech, McNamara outlined one of the most ambitious plans for overseas development since George Marshall delivered his Marshall Plan speech at Harvard in 1947. Not only does McNamara want to double the bank's lending capacity, but he also intends to spread the loans in new directions. More should go, he said, to projects that directly benefit ordinary people in poorer nations...
...junior at Rice University studying here for the summer is presently laying the groundwork for his own attack on the problems of the American cities...
...Attila the Hun, one of the true visionaries of his day, wrested Central Europe from the Caspian to the Loire from the clutches of Teutonic tribes. Historians record that his unstinting effort laid the groundwork for what is known today as the Common Market...
...court that has been rather than the one that will be. By any accounting, the Warren court has been the most influential since the Marshall court (1801-35) established the judiciary as the true third branch of the federal system and, with its decisions, laid the legal groundwork for a strong central government in the U.S. Yet, as Fred Rodell, the Yale Law School's Supreme Court specialist, points out, "John Marshall had 34 years to do what he did. Warren did his fantastic work in only 15. The Warren years have been the most productive and exciting...
Less than two weeks after that, Dean Ford announced the appointment of a Faculty committee to do the groundwork necessary for the establishment of a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies. Meanwhile, the CEP approved cross-registering with other universities in the Boston area for courses in African and Afro-American studies...