Word: bolstered
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...Palestinians quickly crowded around the wreckage, some waving bloodstained clothing lifted from the gutted car, others covering their palms in the blood that had pooled inside. Muhammed Barakeh, a left-wing Arab member of the Israeli Assembly, charged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered the strike to bolster his standing with rightist supporters. But an Israeli military spokesman countered that Rantisi had been "directly responsible for the deaths of scores of Israelis." The assassination came just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli guard at a Gaza border crossing. Hamas...
...pounds, the hottest rookie in competitive eating looks more like a model for the Atkins diet than someone who set a world record by devouring 157 chicken wings in just 32 min. But Sonya Thomas, 36, shown at right celebrating that record, wants to bolster her status as the world's speediest gobbler at several of the 70 contests the International Federation of Competitive Eating has scheduled for 2004. Thomas, who holds titles for downing tacos (43 in 11 min.) and eggs (65 in 7 min.), hopes to pad the $20,000 she's won this year. The rival stars...
...barrels of crude per day from the southern city of Basra. In South Korea, top firms like Hyundai Construction and LG Electronics are hoping to reap rewards in Iraq. Hyundai has already won two contracts worth $240 million to build a hospital and repair dams. And the need to bolster economic relations with the U.S. was a major factor for Thailand to send troops to Iraq. Since dispatching soldiers, Thailand, which sells 20% of its exports to the U.S., has received a basket of goodies from America, including a bilateral free-trade treaty and eligibility to bid for reconstruction projects...
...didn't risk figure into the formula written after 9/11 to bolster homeland security? In facing al-Qaeda, we knew we were dealing with an organization that sought mass casualties and headlines. In the confused days after 9/11, when Capitol Hill offices were closed after several were contaminated by letters containing anthrax, a small group of House and Senate leaders got together with Bush Administration staff members in a corner of the Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept...
...forcing out the Serbs and accelerating [the U.N.'s] departure." U.N. officials stress the violence is in fact undermining Kosovo's chances for independence by damaging its reputation abroad. KFOR, as the NATO force is known, is strengthening its presence. Some 1,000 reinforcements, mostly British, are arriving to bolster an 18,500-strong contingent. With many Serbs already on the move, some are wondering whether their days in Kosovo are numbered. "This might be the decisive battle for Kosovo and the survival of Serbs in Kosovo," a senior Belgrade official, Nebojsa Covic, said. The rhetoric has a familiar ring...