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...order to bolster the ranks of minorities in upper level positions, Williams said the University needs to expand recruitment and training programs...
Referring to the House vote, Salmeron said, "It's a sort of regrettable way to bolster the rally." She added, "People are starting to feel it's time to get out on the street and have our voices be heard...
Amid the furor over Ronald Pelton's betrayal, the OSS veterans gathered for a festive 25th annual banquet that provided a mite of moral support to Administration efforts to bolster the nation's intelligence apparatus. The banqueters warmly applauded when Reagan pledged to do just that, and nobody there had any trouble seconding the President's praise of CIA Director William Casey as "one of the heroes of America's fight for freedom." After all, Bill Casey was one of them; from the OSS office in London, he had helped direct the deployment of agents behind enemy lines. Still...
...know me primarily as a student, and when they find out that I'm captain of the baseball team, they're very surprised. And then the guys on the baseball team were really surprised I was premed--they said the reason they kept me on the team was to bolster the team grade-point average...
Concerned that the ensuing controversy would impair its access to America's academic experts, the CIA made an aggressive bid to bolster its stature on campus...