Word: bolstered
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...Massachusetts State Senate will vote this week on Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 ‘s $1 billion ten-year plan to bolster the life sciences in Massachusetts. The bill, which passed in the House on Feb. 28, is designed to aid the biotechnology industry, spur job development, and entice talented professors and researchers to the Bay State’s state universities. The bill would provide $500 million for lab construction and $250 million for research grants and post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts’ Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining...
...offered recognition, while Spain, Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Slovakia refused to do so. Keeping peace in Kosovo will require European nations to put their citizens at risk. Unfortunately, the stated desire of many European countries to reduce their commitments to the nato effort in Afghanistan does little to bolster confidence in Europe's eagerness to maintain international security...
...Hercules military transports marked with the sky-blue and white colors of Argentina roared back and forth between the tiny island capital of Port Stanley and their mainland base, 600 miles away. The aircraft brought food, ammunition, trucks and members of the Argentine 9th Infantry Brigade to bolster the 2,500-man invasion force. In Buenos Aires, the government made further preparations for battle. Some 80,000 Argentines who had just finished their year of compulsory military service were ordered back into uniform...
Sunstein’s addition to the faculty fits a recent trend to bolster the school’s influence in constitutional and public interest...
...President's comments in Tanzania, the U.S. gives $1 billion a year in aid to a Kenyan government that ranks eighth from the bottom in Transparency International's world corruption tables. Bush has declined to visit Kenya, a key ally in Africa, sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to bolster mediation efforts by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan...