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This year the tension heightened when the city council sent out questionnaires asking Cantabrigians to rate the city manager and received a large number of responses from business groups giving Healy their unanimous support. This served to buttress the neighborhood groups' claims that Healy is only accessible to business interests in the city...
...findings buttress a new biological theory proposing that all sorts of small variations in symmetrical features, such as fish fins and birds' forked tails, are signals of genetic stress. For some unexplained reason, lionesses don't fit the theory -- in fact, females with uneven whisker spots lived longer...
Oppenheimer (apparently to buttress his dubious claim that he had "participated in a debate") claimed that he and Wasinger exchanged words before Oppenheimer tore down the poster (apparently unaware of Wasinger's presence as a representative of AALARM) before Wasinger approached him. The Crimson reporter also failed to report that Oppenheimer made a call to Wasinger late that night, threatening him personally with "retaliation" if Wasinger and AALARM pursued his case with the administration. This, apparently, is the kind of "non-violent, non-affrontive [sic] debate" that Oppenheimer and his fellows on the BGLSA are interested in--the frantic effort...
...govern the inquiry. The first priority was to stabilize the pillars that hold up the Vista Hotel on the Trade Center plaza and which were supported in turn by the garage floors that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift through the tons of debris for clues to the bomber...
Following Walsh's actions since 1989, CTU Co-Chair Michael H. Turk said the activist group has "a series of facts to buttress the allegations," but that he does not consider the council's nearly unanimous decision Monday night to launch an investigation a victory...