Word: buttressing
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...course of the hearing, which Thomas angrily characterized as "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks," other witnesses would come forward. Some would try to buttress Hill's charges either by affirming that she had complained of sexual harassment at the time of the alleged incidents or by putting forward their own allegations of misconduct by Thomas. Others would seek to cast doubt on Hill's testimony either by dredging up recollections that conflicted with hers or by offering stories that aimed to weaken Hill's credibility...
...just like guests at a ritzy hotel, residents of the Union Dorms now use electronic cards instead of metal keys to open their doors. The cards, administrators say, buttress security and make lost keys less of a hassle...
...Serbia across the Danube at the Croatian town of Dalj and two nearby villages 50 miles northwest of Belgrade, killing at least 80 people. The campaign brought nearly one-third of Croatia's territory under Serbian control. The shaken Croatian leadership responded with a series of unconvincing proposals. To buttress the republic's 70,000 security forces, President Franjo Tudjman called up 30,000 reserves, then admitted that he lacked the weapons to arm them. He also revamped his Cabinet, firing his hard-line Defense and Interior ministers and seating an ethnic Serb. In a move that might have meant...
...Slovenia had hoped to use its bold declaration of independence as a negotiating card, by week's end the republic had its stalwart performance to buttress resolve. The Yugoslav army, by contrast, will have much to explain. The use of missiles on Ljubljana's airport seemed excessive, given the purported objective of restricting access to Slovenia. More inexplicable still, Yugoslav jets fired on civilian trucks and reportedly entered Austrian airspace...
...that has been convicted of money laundering -- and Paris-based Hachette, one of the world's largest communications companies. Perhaps most disturbing, the signs pointed to evidence that Saddam had used his secret financial network to acquire advanced technology to upgrade Iraq's nuclear- and chemical-weapons programs and buttress its war machine...