Word: bolstered
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...will come in the form of a $30,000-per-year “study center” initiative tucked inside the $50 million package unveiled Monday by University administrators to bolster the status of women and minorities at Harvard...
Michael Ware chooses to keep quiet about certain aspects of Baghdad life: the careful, tedious planning to bolster the security of staff members as they gather reporting, the anxious waiting for a colleague who has not shown up on time, the instinctive action taken in a dangerous situation to avoid disaster. As TIME's bureau chief in the bomb-blasted city, Ware has been through his share of harrowing silence. Yet it has not hampered his ability to put into words the explosive stories that have made our coverage of the conflict in Iraq stand out over the past...
...speeches were the highlights of a week of intense jockeying by both the White House and the Kremlin to bolster their positions in advance of the summit. Shortly after his talk, Reagan convened a minisummit in New York with U.S. allies. He met for two hours after lunch, and again for two hours at dinner, with the government leaders of Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan. He also held bilateral sessions with each of these leaders. (French President Franois Mitterrand boycotted the proceedings out of pique that he had not been consulted before the meetings were scheduled...
...Paradoxically, Wenling's "democratic discussions" emerged as an attempt by officials to bolster the Party's authority. In 1999 a political education campaign was under way, but leaders couldn't get locals to show up. So they changed tack, offering "dialogues" in which residents could exchange ideas with their leaders, instead of being lectured as usual. "We propaganda officials aren't in the democracy business," says Mu Yifei, deputy director of Wenling's Publicity Bureau, "but slowly this idea caught on. The people and the leaders started to value each other's input...
...school, the Hiroshima Prefectural First Middle School, stood only 800 meters, a mere half-mile, from the hypocenter. Two-thirds of his classmates were killed instantly where they sat at their desks. Some who survived were weeping and calling for their mothers. Others began singing the school song to bolster their courage and to let passersby know that the 13-year-olds were still alive...