Word: bolstered
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...final $235 million will go to the newlycreated President's University Fund, thecenterpiece of Rudenstine's centralizationefforts. The fund will be used to support newinitiatives and to bolster financially strappedsegments of the University as needed...
Takaki advertise that ethnic studies will bolster the self-esteem of underrepresented minorities. Takaki thinks that history is a "mirror" in which we look to find ourselves ethnically represented. "What happens when historians leave out many of America's peoples?" he asks. Takaki thinks this is a psychologically damaging experience, "as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing...
Those proportions, and comparisons between the grandson and other, more fragmentary skulls both large and small, convince Kimbel and his colleagues that afarensis was indeed a single species, as they had believed all along. The arm bones, too, appear to bolster this idea. According to Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist at University College London, they have exactly the robust, curving form you would expect from a tree climber. The two sexes didn't have different kinds of skills, she says, but were both "a mosaic, bipedal from the waist down and arboreal from the waist...
Even if the government has the will, the local officials who control the town halls also control the flow of government money and, Mendez claims, use it to bolster their friends and freeze out villages that do not support them. It is an accusation heard throughout Mexico: public works money goes to cronies of the bosses...
...reforms, including speedy rural electrification; more housing, health clinics and schools; more bilingual education for Indian communities; new state legislative boundaries to increase Indian representation; plots of land for peasants; and reform of the repressive justice system. The government also promised to convene a special session of Congress to bolster laws prohibiting discrimination against Indians, and agreed to help Indian communities compete fairly under the North American Free Trade Agreement...