Word: strengthen
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...nation as well as in the university. These direct encounters between a brilliant young African-American and a cadre of progressive New England academics produced living proof for DuBois that people of different races could meet and work on common terms, could respect one another, and could strengthen one another's commitment to the important moral as well as intellectual values essential to serious education...
...dean wanted to enhance the diversity of student and faculty interests, strengthen the education offered to under-graduates and recreate as much as possible the sense of community he believed was lost in the turmoil of the late 1960s...
BEFORE THE BRITISH MONARCHY IS CANCELED, as a chorus of antagonists is calling for, there is one way to strengthen the royal family and make it cost effective. Let Disney acquire it. This would continue the string of privatizations--including British Gas, British Telecom and British Airways--that were successfully engineered in the Thatcher...
Horwath started with abdominal exercises to strengthen her weakened stomach and spine muscles using large rubber balls in the Harvard training room. Later, she was able to progress to running on grass and then on concrete...
...raid came as Yeltsin was attempting to strengthen his political position following a two-month recovery in a clinic and a convalescent center. The 64-year-old leader had started to make a round of high-profile appearances: strolling in the Kremlin, laying ceremonial bricks for a cathedral and praying at an Orthodox Christmas Mass. He even flew to Paris in the midst of the hostage crisis to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand and demonstrate his fitness for office. "I am in perfect health," he told reporters. "I came here so everyone could see I was in perfect form...