Word: augmentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes) settle all sorts of issues, from busing to pot to unemployment policy. This election year, with its long calendar of primaries and crowded field of candidates, presents a special challenge to voters-and to journalists. To help chart public attitudes on the candidates and the issues, TIME will augment its own coverage with public opinion polling surveys...
...symbol, is favored with Patrick's most successful character, her speeches filled with wit and wordplay. Knight speaks rhythmically, very sexually, building up to a climax and descending with a crash. Clive Donner also directs well, maintaining control during the more histrionic moments. Under his direction, physical movements augment the script and rescue the show from tedium...
...each member of the royal family. Similar protection is available to any Cabinet officer and to the leader of the opposition party. Travel routes within the country are never announced in advance, except for walkabouts during campaigns or royal processions, and in those instances unarmed local police officers augment a small, discreetly armed security force...
...danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The seeds of New York are in every American city." To prevent a bitter harvest, the mayors called for yet more federal aid to augment increasingly burdensome local taxes. They urged Congress to pass President Ford's proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next six years. They also endorsed two Democratic antirecession measures. One would give $2 billion in federal aid to municipalities in which unemployment...
...Student Security Patrol was organized three years ago in the hope that students could be hired to augment the University's security and fire prevention programs by walking late-night routes in and around Harvard buildings...