Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With three years of national campaigning under his belt, Gephardt is a practiced and polished performer, doggedly crisscrossing the country, prescribing tougher trade policies and heavier doses of education to bolster "human capacity" as cures for an ailing America. His stump speech is a stark sweet-and-sour concoction that warns audiences of inevitable economic decline because of surging foreign competition, yet promises a revitalized America. "I worry about an America where dreams don't come true," he tells Democrats in his earnest style. "Our country has sunk to a low, but we can make it great again...
...heels of revelations that Columbia has lowered its admissions standards to bolster its sagging gridiron team, and allegations that Penn did the same during its five-year stranglehold on the Ivy title, it is refreshing that a school whose admissions standards have never been impuned captured the Ivy title...
Greenspan also began moving behind the scenes to bolster the Reagan Administration's political response to the crash. Within an hour of Treasury Secretary James Baker's return from West Germany to Washington on Tuesday, Greenspan was huddling with him to plan the Administration's response to the market crash. Later that day the Fed chairman helped persuade Reagan to offer Congress a summit meeting to negotiate a federal-deficit reduction program...
Harvard and 15 other New England colleges and universities are submitting a joint proposal for a grant to bolster undergraduate education in science, officials said yesterday...
...Stewart '88, who runs the Harvard Gore campaign with Robert Herzstein '88, said Miller has helped bolster the Harvard campaign, which he estimated to have 60 to 70 members...