Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will enable banks to create some $3.6 billion in new credit, a move partly designed to meet seasonal demands, e.g., farmers borrowing for fall harvesting, merchants stocking up for fall and Christmas. The reserve changes and the lowering of the discount rate, taken together in the long run, should bolster the whole economy...
...examination of some ways of countering the fragmentation that filming, as a consequence of film's nature as an art, may cause. Longer rehearsal time, stock companies, close co-operation between director and actor--all are methods of aiding the actor to achieve unity, methods that can bolster his own development through the Method of a cohesive acting image...
...Thought of Power. The passion for public anonymity is readily understandable at the individual level. Every alcoholic needs pals on whom he can lean for help, and whom he can help to bolster his own ego. At the organizational level, the anonymity is more complex. Bill W., a forceful speaker with a cutting wit, explains: "Identification leads to power drives. The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place. A.A. takes no denominational, political or economic stands. It stays out of controversy. We do not claim that anonymity is a virtue. Rather...
...They Bolster Good Defense & Good Politics...
...felt a "compelling responsibility . . . within the American mission of free-world leadership . . . neither to postpone nor to cancel my visit ... If the trip now ahead of me were concerned principally with the support of a regime or a treaty or a disputed policy, if it were intended merely to bolster a particular program, or to achieve a limited objective, such a journey would have no real justification. But this trip . . . represents an important phase of a program whose paramount objective was, and is, to improve the climate of international understanding . . . We should not permit unpleasant incidents and sporadic turmoil, inspired...