Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Horner said yesterday, "all the grants that are given will simply strengthen the kinds of things the institute has done right along--the Institute takes women seriously and gives them the gift of time and the support they need...
...will win in Rhodesia. But you can help us shorten the war." With those words, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere urged the U.S. and Britain to renew and strengthen their efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia. The call came against a backdrop of increasingly violent warfare in that embattled country, where Cuban-trained black nationalist guerrillas are now using Soviet-supplied mortars, armor-piercing machine guns and heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles to battle Rhodesian forces equipped with helicopters, heavy artillery and Belgian automatic weapons. More than 1,000 soldiers and civilians died in September's fighting, about...
...move to strengthen their clout at the bargaining table, Harvard's dining hall workers this week angrily voted to reject the University's latest contract offer, and authorized their union negotiators to call a strike if Harvard does not propose better terms...
President Horner said yesterday the fund would strengthen Radcliffe and allow "creative and imaginative" ideas for new programs...
...Callaghan decided against British wings for the 757. Instead, the British Government pursued negotiations to join the Airbus consortium. That might strengthen Airbus as a Boeing competitor-if the British are allowed in. But the French threaten to freeze them out if Britain goes ahead with the Boeing deal. While it must find some other builder for its wings, Boeing can rejoice in having emerged from the dogfight with $1 billion-plus in orders-enough to assure the 757 a zooming sales takeoff...