Word: bolstered
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...bolster their moves to the middle, both parties are also appealing to the undecided directly. Labor officials wrote to each of 300,000 party members asking them to name any wavering voter they knew. The party has signed up 300 reserve army officers to phone personally each of the identified floaters to try to convince them to vote Labor. The Likud is adopting a similar program, and has created a Website on the Internet to try to reach and persuade the agnostic...
Doctors are concerned that an anti-impotence pill could be subject to widespread abuse. Reports indicate that some Hollywood bedroom athletes have already tapped an underground market for an injectable erection drug. The danger is that otherwise healthy men will take sildenafil to bolster their sexual performance and then become psychologically addicted, unable to achieve an erection without...
CIGB scientists also tried to bolster sagging industrial productivity. Molecular biologist Manuel Raices helped develop a recombinant enzyme that dissolves dextran, a sticky substance that gums up the sugar-refining process. In tests conducted by local sugar mills, the enzyme reduced oil consumption up to 45%. Now Raices is working with Swedish researchers on an enzyme that digests lignin, a gluelike material that bedevils paper manufacturers...
Joint ventures with foreign firms could bolster Cuba's credibility in the global biotech marketplace. While Cuban institutions conduct clinical trials of vaccines and drugs and informally follow U.S. guidelines for field-testing recombinant organisms, the perception persists that Cuba sometimes releases its products prematurely. Recently, for example, scientists at the Citrus Institute developed a monoclonal antibody to detect tristeza, a lethal virus that threatens to devastate the Caribbean citrus industry. However, although the antibody works well in Cuba, it is being offered to countries whose crops may be infected with different strains...
...Goebbels that we are not already painfully aware of. Whitewashing Adolf Hitler has been Irving's thing for years. Rather than enlighten people, as befits a historian, Irving has caused almost irreparable harm by giving the extreme-rightist, renascent Nazi and anti-Semitic movements a splendid tool to bolster their hatreds. HARRY CONWAY Middlebury, Vermont...