Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emerging from the hall into the warm and breezy weather, students will run the yellow-and-white striped gaumlet of organizations attempting to bolster membership and to sell wares underneath the tents...
...many supporters of the status quo interviewed by the committee have cited economics to bolster their argument: that eliminating ROTC scholarships would prevent some financially strapped students from attending Harvard...
Dennis Nealon, a Brandeis Universityspokesperson, said more than 100 students attendedto support Shen and "bolster demands in the UnitedStates that he be freed...
...many supporters of the status quo interviewed by the committee have cited economics to bolster their argument: that eliminating ROTC scholarships would prevent some financially strapped students from attending Harvard...
...King himself. The state attorneys were criticized for not putting King under oath to describe his beating. Federal prosecutors are almost certain to call him, but his testimony could boomerang against them. King's arrest record, his powerful build, his confused and halting speech could all be used to bolster the police version of events. Indeed, one defense attorney, Michael Stone, intends to call King. Says Stone: "Too many people believe Rodney King's testimony would have changed the outcome of the first trial. I want them to see that it would not." Whether King's account helps or hurts...