Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Downing, Shumway, Walton, junior Sarah Winters and sophomore Maureen O'Brien need to bolster a Crimson attack that could only muster 19 goals last season...
This bill claims to ensure "workplace fairness" and bolster fundamental values, and it is named after a famous social activist, so it must be great for the country, right? Wrong! Despite the name, the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act is still a terrible piece of legislation which could have disastrous repurcussions on the economy...
Clinton's confident morning-after quarterbacking masked the fact that the raid was an effort to bolster a seriously flagging U.N. effort. The U.S., when it dominated the Somalia operation, had done little to squelch the warlords permanently, and the U.N.'s subsequent buildup had proceeded slowly. A promised contingent of 7,000 troops, including 4,000 from India, never arrived. As the weeks gave way to months, says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy during the opening phases of Operation Restore Hope, "we kept telling Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali we were leaving, but he wouldn't take it seriously...
...announcement came at the end of a tension-filled day in the fitful talks among 26 parties that began in December 1991. While dissenters will be able to raise the issue again, a majority nonetheless provisionally set the poll date to bolster the hopes of blacks impatient for more rapid change. Afterward, African National Congress Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa rushed to a previously scheduled gala dinner to receive a Man of the Year award jointly with government negotiator Roelf Meyer. To the cheers of 400 guests, who represented all the country's races, Ramaphosa declared, "We now stand...
...controversy over the choice of Gen. Colin L. Powell to speak at Commencement today may further bolster conservative forces on campus, some students say. Vocal outcries against Powell's position on the military's ban on gays may alienate students who are indifferent, or who are ardent Powell supporters. "Many seniors are concerned about their Commencement being disrupted by the protests of liberals," Woods says...