Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just months away from its anticipated close, a multi-million dollar fundraising campaign intended to bolster educational programs, endowed chairs and renovations at Harvard Medical School has almost reached its goal, schools officials...
Although the arrival of new scholars will strongly bolster a troubled department, Donald's departure leaves the History Department with only one 19th century Americanist--William E. Gienapp...
...talents to the attention of the Bush Administration. But the White House, with its friends in Big Business and its fealty to the philosophy of deregulation, may not have expected so much activism so soon. "I have no problems making decisions," declares Kessler, who is investigating several strategies to bolster FDA enforcement. Among them: levying fines, giving subpoena powers to agency inspectors and searching through corporate records...
...TAKES FACTS to make news. It takes opinions about facts to make political cartoons. But despite their insights, political cartoons do not instantaneously create converts. More likely, they bolster the convictions of those who already support particular ideologies, groups, or persons...
Perhaps the most problematic development is the emergence in dozens of cities of "Afrocentric" curriculums. All of them legitimately seek to ) bolster black children's confidence in their ability to achieve and to debunk the patronizing notion that black American history and culture began with the Emancipation Proclamation. When pursued with intellectual discipline, the Afrocentric idea can be inspirational. Says Franklyn Jenifer, president of Howard University, in recalling his own education at that historically black school: "Every course I took was infused with some sense of our destiny or my personal destiny and the possibility of my achieving...