Word: bolstered
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...admits that long-term, controlled studies are still needed to judge their usefulness. Still, he's pleased with the response of his patients so far. On average, they report a 70% reduction in their pain. And within one week, most are able to begin a physical-therapy program to bolster the procedure's relieving effects...
...Each battle gets bookended by full-motion video scenes that do a pretty good job of characterization for a war strategy game. Frankly, I found myself playing the battle games just to get to the cut scenes. To bolster the historicity you even get a dictionary, of all things, with the lineage trees of all the major characters (authentic, I presume). I actually felt like I was learning a little bit - an important, and new, experience in video games...
...apart. Many parents talk about this as the great struggle of their households. They find themselves quietly shedding old friends when they diverge over discipline; they shop online to avoid the temptation their kids face up and down the endless aisles; they attend workshops and buy books to help bolster their resolve. If you doubt the guerrilla war, just check in with groups like the Center for a New American Dream: three years ago its website had fewer than 15,000 hits a month; today it gets more than 1.5 million...
...Back home, concerned that French prosecutors had done a lackluster job, as Tricaud gleefully suggested, the Justice Department scrambled last week to bolster the argument for extradition. The decision is scheduled for this Tuesday. "I spent 16 years on this. I'm not going to lie down now," DiBenedetto promised...
...answer--if that is indeed what we have--will force philosophers and religious leaders to rethink their assumptions and beliefs about eternity and how the world will end. For scientists, meanwhile, there are certain details in these discoveries that have profound--and bizarre--implications. For example, the new observations bolster the theory of inflation: the notion that the universe when it was still smaller than an atom went through a period of turbocharged expansion, flying apart (in apparent, but not actual, contradiction of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity) faster than the speed of light...