Word: burnish
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...mountains of Afghanistan, and destroyed a pharmaceutical factory linked (possibly erroneously) with him in the Sudan. Although the missiles killed a handful of terrorists-in-training - most of them Kashmiri Mulims for 'jihad' against India - they did no discernible damage to Bin Laden's operational capacity. But they did burnish his image as a champion of a global 'jihad' against the U.S. - a 'jihad' whose popularity in the Arab world has spiked during the current Palestinian uprising in response to U.S. support for Israel...
...patients to sue HMOs in state court and win jury awards of up to $5 million. Conservative Republicans in Congress were appalled at the thought of a Kennedy-Bush compromise on the legislation, but they needn't have worried. Bush wasn't eager to strike any deal that would burnish the reputation of McCain, his bitter opponent in the Republican presidential primaries and still a rival today. So instead of supporting McCain-Edwards-Kennedy, Bush endorsed the more business-friendly measure sponsored by Senators John Breaux, Bill Frist and Jim Jeffords. So far, Kennedy's bill appears to have more...
...Bush couldn't seem to return the phone calls. He wanted no part of their bill's provisions that allow aggrieved patients to tie up HMOs in state courts and win up to $5 million in jury awards. Bush also wasn't eager to strike any deal that would burnish McCain, his bitter rival in the Republican presidential primaries...
...midair crash cost President Jiang an airman and a plane, it may nonetheless have been a windfall for the Chinese leader. Pilloried by hawkish critics for having responded too limply to NATO's erroneous bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago, this week Jiang set out to burnish his prestige by acting as if he had Washington over a barrel...
...painting's recent history is an apt parable of Russia's post-Soviet decade. In the early 1990s, seeking to burnish their image, the country's richest bankers turned to collecting art. "We encouraged them," says Georgi Nikich, a Moscow art critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed...