Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administrators said haste in preparing thecourses was not the way to bolster the numbers offaculty teaching in the Core. But short of hiringmany more professors and lobbying those alreadyhere, they have found no answer to the dilemma,they said...
Reilly has had to depend on a couple of youngsters to help bolster Army's offensive attack. Freshman center Rob Tobin (9 goals, 15 assists, 24 points) and sophomore wing Rich Sheridan (12-10--22) lead a Cadet offense that has averaged only two goals per each ECAC game...
...spectacular road show and an accompanying ad campaign, which reportedly cost GM a total of $20 million, are an unabashed effort to polish up the company's rusty image during a period of declining sales and slumping profits and to bolster employee morale after a two-year wave of layoffs. Kicking off the affair with what he called a "progress report," Chairman Roger Smith, 62, asserted that GM is rebuilding consumer confidence in its cars with competitive pricing, superior technology and eye-catching style. The vehicles around him, Smith said, were proof of a "GM that can maintain its world...
...dispatched 10,000 tons of food to Ethiopia on May 7, when crops failed in Harar. When the rains failed in the highlands in July, 10,000 tons were sent to bolster the country's reserves. And when it was certain that a new drought had begun in August, the U.S. approved the delivery of 115,000 tons, valued at $43 million. The first 30,000 tons are scheduled to arrive this month...
Aftershocks from October's stock crash rumbled through Wall Street last week as several shaken brokerage houses took steps to bolster their financial health. First, Paine Webber agreed to sell up to 25% of its stock to Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance of Japan for $300 million. The brokerage, which lost $16.5 million in October, welcomed the investment as a defense against takeovers...