Word: replenish
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...tough on illegal immigrants and false asylum seekers plays well in the heartland; but crackdowns merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing ?zero immigration? policy seems premised on nothing so much...
...What are you implying?" I asked. Hubert shrugged, and walked off to replenish his drink...
...Technological developments are a further hallmark of this past millennium. We have developed the three-field system, cultivating great fields of legumes to replenish the soil and increase our food supply. We have created the heavy iron plow, which can bite through the heavy earth of Northern Europe. We have even unleashed the mighty power of the horse, with a new stirrup for shock combat and a collar that enables horses to pull heavy weights without choking them to death...
...former Student Advisory Council (SAC) at the Institute of Politics (IOP), for example, used to renew its leadership with a private internal process. When the IOP conceived of the selection process some 30 years ago, the institute hoped that such a system would establish a spirit that would perpetually replenish the SAC's leadership with charismatic and visionary students. Who better to identify the undergraduates best fit to take the reins of an organization than those who had braved the demands of the positions themselves? Unfortunately, this selection process, too, fell victim to the vices of Harvard students; especially...
Bush's national-security point seems strained, since the reserve oil isn't being sold but "swapped"--the deal requires buyers to replenish the reserve. But that's not the only reason Gore and his advisers were delighted with Bush's response. Their fear had been that as temperatures dropped and the election approached, Bush would draw blood with his criticism of a Clinton-Gore "do-nothing" energy policy. Most people who heat their homes with oil live in New England, which is solidly for Gore, but a great many also live in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gore...