Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bolster Rocard's chances of eventual success, Mitterrand last weekend called a snap parliamentary election. In a televised statement, he announced that he was dissolving the National Assembly and summoning voters to the polls on June 5 and 12. His aim: to win Rocard a parliamentary majority. Rocard, 57, is a pragmatic self-described social democrat who launched an aborted challenge to Mitterrand's candidacy in 1981 and opposed the sweeping nationalizations that followed the Socialist victory that year. A former Agriculture Minister, Rocard has consistently emerged in opinion polls as one of France's most popular politicians...
That strategy by GM -- America's leading industrial company -- will bolster its profitability but do nothing to help the U.S. close the trade deficit. Nor will any trade bill Congress devises have much chance of success if U.S. companies lose their resolve to outhustle and outsell foreign competitors...
...additional reason for the break, according to Middle East analysts, is to bolster Saudi Arabia's image in Washington. Congressmen are lining up to block a proposed $825 million Saudi arms package. Saudi Arabia also announced its agreement to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Some U.S. lawmakers have worried that the Saudis' new Chinese medium-range missiles could be fitted with nuclear warheads or fired at Israel, or both...
...control our bodies and demand that we be heard when we say "No" to men. Actions such as Take Back the Night reveal our strength in numbers, provide women with too-infrequent leadership roles and recognize a community which will support us in personal crises involving sexual aggression. They bolster our confidence as women and enable us to approach interaction with men from a position of strength rather than of weakness...
...Harvard police force must, help give back the night, by confronting the security threat in our corner of Cambridge. At the very least, the department must bolster the escort service...