Word: strengthen
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...viciousness and intractability of bird flu are forcing the world to begin preparing for a pandemic. At the WHO's 32-nation executive board meeting last week, health officials debated plans to strengthen disease surveillance, stockpile antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and boost research on a human vaccine that will soon go into clinical trials. In Thailand, where 12 people have died of the disease since the beginning of 2004, the government last week launched a $117 million fund to fight avian flu over the next three years, with an 800,000-strong team of volunteers. Experts say that kind...
...similar outbreak of bloodshed over contraband traffic in 1997, he says, "We broke a taboo back then by insisting that the guy selling cigarettes on the street corner wasn't some poor soul, but a sentry for the Camorra." The current violence, he thinks, is a call to strengthen Italy's justice system. Drug dealers "should know they risk serving real time," he says. But Pisani worries that not even prison can stop the killing. "These people don't forget their dead," he says. "A war like this only ends when one side is completely annihilated...
...last January, Ford, which aims to “strengthen democratic values” and “reduce poverty and injustice” and has sponsored research at Harvard on topics such as American Islam, told universities that future grantees would have to agree not to “promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state...
...engagement, he announced after his election, is to “reach out to others and to explain to others why I make the decisions I make.” Dictating our agenda to others has characterized U.S. foreign policy for four years. More of the same will not strengthen ties with the countries we need on our side to defeat terrorism, AIDS and other global threats...
...seems to want not only to strengthen the Party's control over the state but to improve its thinking. Two weeks ago, he launched a nationwide campaign called "Develop and Maintain the Advanced Nature of Party Members." All 68 million rank-and-file Party members will spend the next 18 months "finding problems in their thought, work and behavior" and writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build...