Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peaceful basis for relations with the Communist nations unless he is backed by a strong, united Western Europe. An isolated Germany, moreover, has undertaken irrational and tragic actions in the past. In the U.S., Western Europe's failure to unite would intensify a budding mood of isolationism and heighten demands for a reduction of American defense commitments...
...essence of Castroist thought as put by Che was to heighten the political consciousness and international brotherhood of all socialist countries and peoples oppressed by imperialism. While maybe a viable strategy for Cuba, to the Russian doctrine of peaceful coexistence, Karol stresses this was a heresy. The Castrcists also believed that "Latin America lacked the basis for the peaceful transfer to socialism": their second theoretical violation of Russian doctrine according to Karol. Regis Dubray who theorized the Cuban strategy in Revolution in the Revolution? emphasized that only a unique Latin American solution would liberate the area; in other words...
...basic text on the subject, believes that bathrooms should be "elegant and practical." His idea of simplicity is reflected in his designs for the small bathroom of Mrs. Harilaos ("Betsy") Theodoracopulos. He specified mirrors on walls and ceilings to "stretch the room out and at the same time heighten it." For surfaces, he used scrubbed stone "because of its rough, aggressive element which contrasts with the smoothness of the mirror." Many of the wall mirrors conceal storage closets. To Mrs. Theodoracopulos, the bathroom is "like fairyland...
With flexible course loads and a reduced course requirement for the A.B. degree, failing grades will be less onerous and costly in terms of time and money. This change in attitude and atmosphere might allow instructors to heighten their expectations of students' academic commitment and make them less likely to award a passing grade to an undeserving student...
...sign of movement on Berlin that the tentative Soviet agreement was generally hailed as progress, especially in detente-minded West Germany. Chancellor Willy Brandt is particularly anxious for a settlement in Berlin to buttress his shaky coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British sector of the city...