Word: heightening
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...positions throughout the Faculty. As a recently released affirmative action report indicates, minorities are highly underrepresented in both teaching and administrative positions at Harvard. Minority students have repeatedly cited the low number of minority faculty and administrators as factors that create a hostile environment for minority students, and heighten the need for minority support networks...
Tuesday night's performance seems to say that ABT is potentially still the same company of international acclaim as its dancers are masters of classical ballet and also versatile in other areas. However, in the future, it must filter out those pieces that detract, rather than heighten that impression...
OSTENSIBLY, the U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon to stabilize internal conflict there sparked by the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the tenuous installation of the Gemayel government. So the realization that, on balance, the Marines' presence seems to heighten rather than diminish conflict within that country leads to a simple conclusion: they should be recalled...
...believe that the Syrian attacks on U.S. reconnaissance planes were not an invitation to war but a probinig of how much the U.S. would take. Observes Joyce Starr, a Middle East expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Syrians are playing decibel politics. They heighten tensions for a few days, then lower them." Some Washington officials believe that Syria, after it stops testing U.S. resolve, will settle down and work out a deal with Gemayel six months to a year from now. In this view, once Gemayel shows progress?no matter how scant?in mending...
...dust settlers on the 1983 Cambridge municipal election. I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to the people of Cambridge, especially my neighbors and friends who have supported my bid for elective office. If the campaign did nothing more than heighten the awareness of the need for improved quality education, then it was a success. The election may now be over but those elected must truly serve the people of Cambridge on a year-round basis for we have placed in their hands the future education of our next generation. As Theodore Roosevelt stated...