Word: stiffens
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...Still, an indictment that implies Iranian authorship of an attack that killed 19 Americans may raise pressure on the Bush Administration to take some form of action. At the very least it will stiffen resistance to any rapprochement with Tehran. And that makes it a complicating factor for a U.S. administration that has not yet resolved its Iran policy. Unlike the case of Iraq, where the Bush team knows what it wants to do but is unsure whether its goals are achievable, in the case of Iran it's not yet sure what it actually wants...
...Fluconazole - a drug used to treat opportunistic infections in AIDS patients - that he bought at a price 98 percent cheaper than the price charged in South Africa for the brand-name tablets. This illegal "import" was a symbolic act of defiance, designed to challenge the drug companies and stiffen the spine of his own government. "People were dying across the country and doctors were saying they could not afford to prescribe the right medicines," Achmat told an interviewer. "We wanted to set a moral example and put the right to health and life before profit. We don't want...
Even so, the Federal Government has launched a major p.r. effort to fight ecstasy based on the Internet at clubdrugs.org Last week two Senators, Bob Graham of Florida and Charles Grassley of Iowa, introduced an ecstasy antiproliferation bill, which would stiffen penalties for trafficking in the drug. Under the new law, someone caught selling about 100 hits of ecstasy could be charged as a drug trafficker; current law sets the threshold at about 300,000 pills. "I think this is the time to take a forceful set of initiatives to try to reverse the tide," says Graham...
...York Times reporter found an original, signed copy after the rebel leader had fled) and the international forces are scrambling to organize defenses to stave off a rebel assault on the capital. Britain, the country's former colonizer, has some 700 paratroopers in there to evacuate Europeans and to stiffen the spine of Freetown's defenders. And the U.S. has promised to fly in anybody willing to fight as long as they're not American, and also to send Jesse Jackson back to the region to talk to anyone who'll listen. But it's patently clear that the peace...
...throughout Democratic party ranks Thursday when the vice president broke with his administration over the issue, supporting legislation to make Elian a permanent resident of the U.S. and insisting that his future be decided as a custody case by a family court. Gore's announcement, which will almost certainly stiffen the resolve of Elian's Miami relatives to defy the INS demand that they sign a pledge to hand the boy over once they've exhausted their appeal process, appears designed to court Florida's Cuban-American voters, but may spark something of a backlash elsewhere. "It's difficult...