Word: strengthen
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...extent of undoing Arafat's diplomatic triumphs of the Oslo years, he may have won a pyrrhic victory. Sharon strategic goal, after all, has been not to revive President Bush's roadmap, but to avoid it, instead pursuing a unilateral redrawing of boundaries (the Gaza pullout) that would strengthen Israel's grip on the West Bank and remove any pressure to negotiate a permanent two-state solution with the Palestinian leadership. And the anti-Arafat consensus he reached with the Bush administration had, in every meaningful sense, taken the roadmap off the table - as Sharon's top political aide...
...course, selling the idea of IRV to the American people is a difficult task, as evidenced by its sparse usage nationwide. One significant barrier to its implementation is a perceived threat to the two-party system. But IRV, at least initially, will likely strengthen the two-party system, because it will decrease the chances of a third-party spoiler. So politicians have little excuse not to push for it. More serious concerns involve educating voters about the ranking system and refitting (or replacing) older punch-card and pull-lever voting technologies. But asking voters to rank candidates in their order...
...military to ease the burden on overstretched troops. He wants to increase funding for inspecting cargo at ports and on airplanes and to create a single national terrorist watch list. He wants NATO to play a larger role in Afghanistan, where he says al-Qaeda is "regrouping and strengthening," and promises to get tough with Saudi Arabia, a source of terrorist funding and extremist teachings. Kerry supports the Patriot Act but wants to strengthen some measures in it, like those targeting money laundering, and ease others that restrict civil liberties...
...report is a call to arms--and legs, hips and backbones--for doctors and patients to start putting into practice prevention and treatment strategies already proven to strengthen bone. These include building up bone mass beginning in childhood by exercising regularly--30 minutes of moderate activity every day--and getting plenty of calcium and vitamin D in the diet. Reducing caffeine and sodium intake can also keep calcium from leaching out of bone. And it's important to be aware that some drugs, such as corticosteroids, speed up bone loss by interfering with calcium absorption...
...line that separates hyperbole from fabrication. Even Dick Cheney's rancid assertion that the U.S. would be more vulnerable to terrorist attacks if Kerry were elected had its roots in a real policy difference--the Vice President's belief that Kerry's multilateralism would lead to appeasement and thus strengthen the terrorists...