Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels' show of strength comes at a particularly difficult time for the government, which already faces staggering economic trouble. This year's coffee harvest will probably be the scantiest in 30 years, disastrous news for a country that counts on this single product for one-third of its income. An additional 50% of its income comes from U.S. aid, but belt tightening in Washington could erode the $537 million currently allocated to El Salvador...
WHEN I was applying to colleges, I was drawn to Harvard's reputation of well-roundedness, its supposed strength in both the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences. Yale was too fuzzy, MIT too techie. Only Harvard stood as the Renaissance man of schools...
...That to some degree the length and strength of the present expansion, the < fact that we've gone as far as we have with as little inflation as we've had -- although I'm quite worried about the inflation rate now -- is not unrelated to what we went through early in the decade...
This distinction, while obvious enough, is of utmost importance in analyzing the growing strength of the animal rights movement in the United States. While some of its goals may be noble, and some of its means acceptable, its basic premise is faulty. Most of the animal rights groups gaining publicity and popularity in the United States do think that killing animals is murder because they believe that animals and humans have the exact same right to live free from undue pain and suffering...
...NCAA Executive Committee has already made a tentative decision on the problem of deciding who loses the bid. It may choose conferences each year the same way the Division I men's basketball committee selects at-large teams--on the basis of a conference's strength, and its teams' records against outside competition, including wins against top-50 teams...