Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Repentance messes with my busy schedule. I won't lie to you, Lord, because of hunger (and because of this flu bug that I caught from my roommate) my mind wandered to just about every subject but repentance. Actually, I spent most of the service thinking about ways to bolster my Rhodes application, and staring at this girl down the aisle who looked like she'd make a great First Lady...
...become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...
...which Secret Service agents were warily watching them come and go, which aides were shooting daggers at her outside the Oval Office, which phone calls Clinton took during their time together. The narrative relies on Lewinsky's testimony for the particulars of 10 alleged sexual encounters, but to bolster her credibility--she did, after all, perjure herself in her Jones affidavit and cooperated with Starr in exchange for immunity--the report time and again uses White House records and contemporaneous accounts to corroborate her stories. Lewinsky remembers being with Clinton on President's Day 1996, when he spoke...
...compared with that of the rest of the world. One conclusion: the deficiency of America's average students is a major reason for the woeful U.S. performance in the TIMSS exams. Too many schools, the report says, "have sacrificed the attainments of more average students in an attempt to bolster the performance of better students." As a result, American eighth- and 12th-graders on the whole lag below the international average in math and are not even within earshot of top countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. "The other nations of the world don't subdivide children...
...following week, she had new lawyers, Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein, who brought with them years of experience, hosts of connections and a chance for a new emotional climate. Their first task was damage control. They needed to bolster her credibility with Starr and improve Starr's image with her. On June 2 they had their first meeting with Starr's team, conducted in total privacy, to convince the Starr camp that unlike the uncorkable Ginsburg, they were serious about doing this deal quietly and without publicity. That meeting stayed secret. "We didn't want any ceremony," says Stein. "That...