Word: strengthen
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Minow recently worked with Obama on a two-year project run out of the Kennedy School of Government that produced a report called “Better Together,” which examined and identified efforts to strengthen bonds within communities and democracies...
Amid the great anticipation of scholars, President Bush seized the opportunity to publicly promote the virtues of education in a heartfelt, inspiring (and grammatically-correct) speech. It was a message of hope and celebration; it was proof that a shared priority of education could strengthen our nation and even transcend the boundaries of partisanship...
...have garnered legitimacy and, in all likelihood, convicted the accused. But instead of an opinion-shaping display of due process and the rule of law that might help restore some measure of trust in the U.S., we have a politicized court with flawed procedures and inadequate protections that could strengthen the perception of the U.S. as a global legal pariah. All this has happened because the White House worries that international tribunals might prosecute American soldiers or officials. This concern is largely misplaced, since international courts are designed to complement, not substitute, national legal systems. Still unwilling to play...
...first steps toward the common currency. "We need a strong [Commission] to run the European economy." But the E.U.'s leaders didn't want another Jacques Delors - he would be far too tough-minded - and they clearly don't need another Romano Prodi, a poor communicator who battled to strengthen the Commission's role but ended up weakening it. Prodi's attention long ago strayed from the Union to domestic Italian politics and, partly for that reason, he ended up on a collision course with government leaders over economic policy and the architecture of the E.U.'s institutions. Worse, Prodi...
Several years ago, for example, the two biology departments created a new course in genetics and genomics to serve as the gateway to concentration, introducing students early to the basic language of the life sciences. The English department revised its junior tutorial program two years ago to strengthen its intellectual content and to bring small groups of undergraduates together with one graduate student for each group to explore a topic of mutual interest, with emphasis on research and writing. With greater faculty strength and more courses in film studies, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will offer...