Word: bolstered
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...spectacle of U.S. troops arresting leading Sunni clerics and politicians sympathetic to the insurgency in Baghdad, or the widely televised image of a Marine apparently shooting dead an unarmed insurgent inside a mosque. Nor will the images of death and destruction that emerge from the ruined city help bolster the government?s case, even though the U.S. plans to quickly spend $100 million on rebuilding the city, in the hope of winning over Fallujah residents...
...troops could be pondering questions like that for years. The Pentagon is planning to maintain in Iraq a force of the current size--138,000--for the next two years. And the top brass will probably boost the numbers to almost 160,000 for the next three months to bolster security for Iraq's elections. The Army's top officer conceded last week that the current 12-month tours in Iraq cannot be scaled back to six or nine months, as the White House wanted. The long deployments are pinching recruitment and retention, especially as veterans contemplate returning to Iraq...
...fact, the University devoted nearly 85 percent of its money—$440,000—to bolster lobbying efforts at Harvard’s Office of Federal Relations, according to the Chronicle...
According to HMS Dean for Medical Education Malcolm Cox, these efforts will provide better academic and clinical programs for students, and bolster economic growth in Boston...
...PALAEONTOLOGY: New finds bolster the once dubious theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs...