Word: bolstered
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...meantime, events like the MIT Bouldering Competition help to bolster enthusiasm for the up-and-coming sport of indoor climbing...
...George W. Bush decided to take on Saddam, an account by Michael Ware and Nancy Gibbs on how Saddam might have been fooled into thinking he had weapons of mass destruction, an examination by Michael Duffy and James Carney of how Bush came to rely on bogus evidence to bolster his case for war, and an up-close look by Brian Bennett and Michael Ware at the methods being employed by the insurgents fighting the U.S. We ended 2003 by naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, which included a profile by Michael Weisskopf and Romesh Ratnesar...
...incentive will clearly be there for al-Qaeda-related groups to make their mark on those elections, too. It doesn't take a soothsayer to predict that new terror attacks in Britain or the U.S. would be more likely to stampede the voters behind Blair and Bush than to bolster any antiwar challengers. But that's unlikely to stop the terrorists from trying...
...real ramifications of America’s unwillingness to embrace different cultures firsthand runs deeper than a quick chuckle at a Woodbridge meeting—the international students club—and does more than bolster my condescending humor. I know it’s hard to believe, but the U.S. wields great power as the world’s dominant force and the remaining 6 billion of us are often affected by the decisions made by the White House...
...protest against police incompetence and allegations of a high-level cover up. The trial is expected to last three months. Dirty Secrets FINLAND The Helsinki trial of former Prime Minister Anneli Jäätteenmäki on charges of inciting the leaking of classified memos on Iraq to bolster her election campaign last year ended after three days, with a verdict expected within two weeks. Prosecutors alleged that Jäätteenmäki used secret documents to claim that then Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning...