Word: buttress
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...lawyer and political scientist with no bankerly credentials, Conable has suddenly become a central figure in the Reagan Administration's ambitious . plans to end the dangerous Third World debt crisis. His job is to buttress the lending efforts of the sedate World Bank, an institution well known for funding Third World dams, roads and other good works but never before considered a strategic centerpiece of the effort to maintain international financial stability. Conable's intention is clearly to change that. In his first official interview last week, he told TIME, "The World Bank is going to be a catalyst...
Associate Justice Byron White, who wrote the decision, claims that there is no "constitutional right of homosexuals to engage in acts of sodomy." Why this is so is not apparent to anyone, including White, judging from the muddled arguments that he makes to buttress his decision...
...long supported the divestment movement at Harvard and I was glad to see such a protest of University hypocrisy. This institution cannot stand blindly by its symbol of "truth" while it attempts to deceive the student body by declaring that Harvard investments in South Africa-related stocks do not buttress the repressive and racist system of apartheid. But just as the University basks in the darkness of untruthfulness, I am sorry to say that the indictment also extends to the members of the Open University. I must point out that I am myself a member of the Open University...
...culture. And how difficult it is to transcend cultural inhibitions. When I went to the beach, I never quite escaped that thrill of the illicit. But with Scandinavian values as a catalyst, I have at least grown critical--and impatient with American sexual repressiveness. Playboy, as the most respectable buttress of pornography, is key among these repressive forces...
...Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists on the report, Defense Intelligence Agency Specialist James McCrery asserted that "for a long time" the Soviets "have been devoting very heavy...