Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI agent who impounded James Earl Ray's car at the time says he kept two slips of paper from the car that bolster Ray's claim that he was part of a larger conspiracy...
What's suspicious about some of these arguments is that they have appeared only recently. Judge Wright may view them as lawyerly confections designed to bolster a weak case. But Jones' lawyers have presented enough factual quarrels with Bennett's motion (such as the pay-raise issue) that Wright probably can't dismiss the suit...
...million gift and bequest to Harvard Law School (HLS) will bolster the law school's study of business and cyberspace law, officials announced yesterday...
...recent months, though, he has moved up the rankings, largely thanks to his work with Russian ice-dancing coach Tatiana Tarasova, who two years ago came out of retirement to oversee Kulik's career. Last summer she put him on a regimen of cycling, running and weight lifting to bolster his conditioning. In December, Kulik, who has never won a world championship, defeated Stojko and Eldredge in Munich at the Champions Series final...
...elderly man develops macular degeneration, a disease that destroys vision. To bolster his failing eyesight, he receives a transplant of healthy retinal tissue--cloned from his own cells and cultivated in a lab dish...