Word: deepening
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...offer places Harvard in a bidding war over the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Company. A deal for Pacific Lumber would deepen the University’s already extensive forestry holdings, which are valued in the billions of dollars...
...there is little dispute that the cause of the dramatic humanitarian decline has been the upsurge in violence in the wake of the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. There is also little arguing with the fact that Washington's failure to match its military involvement with humanitarian intervention has helped deepen anti-American sentiment across Somalia...
...really important,” senior Elyse Dolbec said. “It was really important for us to finish in the top nine. That was our main goal.”According to junior Jon Garrity, this is the first year that the ICSA has held semifinals to deepen the field that makes it to Nationals, which elevated the importance of finishing in the top half.“It was definitely a very competitive event,” Garrity said.The Crimson also sent boats to closer regattas—the BU Trophy and the Geiger Trophy hosted...
...Kremlin could also be seeking to deepen existing divisions in Ukraine's anti-Moscow ruling coalition between Yushchenko and Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko. The two politicians who have waged a four-year struggle for leadership of the coalition take different positions on the gas issue: Tymoshenko demands that Ukraine raise transit prices for Russian gas and dump Rosukrenergo as a supplier. The latter campaign received a vigorous boost, late last month, when alleged crime boss Semyen Mogilevich, wanted by the U.S. on fraud and extortion charges, and long suspected of owning Rosukrenergo, was arrested in Moscow. Tymoshenko insists that Mogilevich stands...
...even South Korea's newly elected President Lee Myung Bak, a political hard-liner when it comes to dealing with Pyongyang, seems willing to break the increasingly warm embrace. "If North Korea opens up, and proceeds to dismantle its nuclear program, the South Korean government can increase and deepen its economic cooperation with the North,'' says Kim Tae Hyo, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University and one of the President-elect's chief advisers on North Korea. According to Kim, Lee wants to "pave the way'' toward eventual reunification of the two countries, in part by pouring an additional $10 billion...