Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 35 people gathered at the Peabody Museum yesterday to create a mural featuring colorful Native American designs and heighten awareness of what Columbus Day means to Native Americans...
...hearings raise issues about Yeltsin's power to rule by decree. They will expose the party's checkered past and pose painful questions about retribution and punishment in future trials. And they could provoke a surge of resentment among the party faithful that could spill into the streets -- and heighten anxieties about another putsch attempt...
Eyre sought the tour in order to heighten his theater's profile, not least in the U.S., where its lesser rival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, is much better known. McKellen has made it clear that he savors the family feeling of a tour and welcomes the chance to proselytize widely for gay rights. Fortunately for audiences, whatever their other agendas, the two creators still see to it that the play's the thing...
Harvard professors said yesterday that they expect the Rio Earth Summit, scheduled to begin today, to heighten awareness but not to solve the world's environmental problems...
...really represents an opportunity to get together and heighten awareness about the degree to which things being done locally can have global effects," he said. "All idealistic efforts to achieve treaties take a long time. This is a first step...