Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant is the newest example of the Irish government's successful campaign to lure in foreign industries to bolster the island's faltering economy. Principally agricultural, Ireland has provided so few jobs that each year as many as 40,000 Irishmen immigrate, mainly to the U.S. and Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus...
...Program's chief objective will be to bolster the Medical School Faculty by providing for more full-time tenure appointments, increased salaries, and a larger amount of unrestricted capital for teaching and research. The only building included in the Program is the $7.5 million Francis A. Countway Library, which will house the Harvard and Boston Medical Libraries...
Vice President Nixon, on the other hand, was fighting a doubly defensive campaign: he was defending the record of the Eisenhower Administration and defending himself against the Kennedy onslaught. Taking to an old-fashioned campaign train, Nixon sought to bolster Republican areas in Pennsylvania. Ohio, Illinois and Michigan in hopes that Republican majorities might be able to tip state balances against Kennedy's strong hold on big cities. He called Kennedy's recession campaigning the "most disgraceful, irresponsible statement, probably, of this campaign, other than the one he made on the Cuban situation...
...domination of the country by any one element, and work to maintain a great measure of constitutional compromise. Although a number of the younger politically-minded people have been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier to decisive and constructive action...
...union struck to show sympathy with Indonesia, refused to man tugs or docking lines. The Doorman cranked up her aircraft and maneuvered to her berth by using the propeller blasts to nudge alongside the dock. At Hollandia, New Guinea, the Doorman unloaded twelve obsolescent Hawker Hunter turbojets to bolster the small Dutch defense forces. Crying "Horrid imperialists," Indonesia's President Sukarno broke off diplomatic relations with The Netherlands...