Word: strengthen
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...shunned tobacco stocks until the decision was announced: RJR Nabisco was trading as low as $28.37 1/2 before finishing the day up $3.12 1/2 at $32.62 1/2, while Philip Morris bottomed out at $37.87 1/2 and then went up $4.25 at $44.12 1/2. Investors hope that the decision will strengthen the industry's hand in the ongoing cash-for immunity negotiations between cigarette makers and state attorneys general. The industry would pay a large sum, perhaps as much as $300 billion, and agree to numerous restrictions on advertising and sales in order to settle suits by 24 states. With...
Stephen E. Weinberg '99, who authored the bill, said the legislation had the potential to strengthen student groups...
...said about the IRS, your five-point proposal for improving it rings true and echoes a five-point plan unveiled last month in a speech by Treasury Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers, who is charged with looking after the IRS. His plan requires Treasury and the IRS to 1) strengthen oversight; 2) improve flexibility, cutting away the bureaucracy and using outsourcing wherever appropriate; 3) improve budgeting, particularly for investments in information technology; 4) proceed with tax simplification to make the tax code easier to enforce and 5) put in place the leadership from the commissioner on down to carry...
...moves into the twentyfirst century, Ireland hopes to strengthen alliances within the feminist movement, continue intergenerational dialogues moving and continue advancing the movements...
Traditional treatments are designed to strengthen the body's natural defenses or to maintain health--antibiotics accomplish this by helping to fight infection. Gene therapy, however, alters the defenses themselves...