Word: strengthen
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Scott M. Sperling heads the University's three member LOB team. Michael Eisenson and Michael G. Thonis are two relatively new additions to Harvard Management brought in to strengthen the University's buyout investments, according to a Wall Street investment banker who has worked with Harvard...
...closed for eight years, had been attacked by an angry mob earlier last week. The Foreign Office summoned Iran's lone diplomat in Britain and told him that Khomeini's threat was "totally unacceptable," demanded special protection for its embassy, and disclosed that London was "freezing" its plan to strengthen diplomatic ties with the Islamic state...
...State Rep. Nicholas A. Paleologos (D-Woburn), co-chair of the legislature's Education Committee, said Tsongas and the regents are trying to strengthen areas of growing student interest and discard under-used sectors of the system. These could involve selling portions of college campuses and using the proceeds to finance other areas of higher education...
Since New Year's Day, Washington has seen 55 murders, and City Council Chairman David Clarke has proposed a radical solution to the wave of homicides. Last week he introduced a bill that would further strengthen the city's tough gun-control laws by extending a legal doctrine called "strict liability" to firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through...
...Shattuck report addresses only half the problem that Bush must face in revitalizing the nation's economy. If the United States is to compete effectively in the world market, it must, at the same time as it loosens the classification and export control strictures, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights...