Word: strengthen
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...size of a shot in the cheap magazines. Foldouts were a feature of Life as well, but those were typically illustrations of the Stone Age, suitable for schoolroom use. Hefner had in mind a more tactile edification. His Playmate centerfolds, in addition to giving males the opportunity to strengthen their eye-hand coordination and prompting too many jokes about staples, achieved its goal: it undressed the all-American girl...
...together each year is a major phenomenon with young people today," says Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (Bloomsbury; 272 pages). "These vacations create a kind of group lore and help define what those friendships are about." Watters believes that friend trips strengthen bonds, particularly when members are at different stages in their personal lives. Watters, who is 39 and recently married with a newborn, takes two annual trips with friends in their 30s and early 40s. "The group is shifting right now from single to married," Watters says. "But my tribe...
...such a challenge would have wide-reaching ramifications beyond the District. If this settlement agreement were approved by a judge, it would not only make it very difficult for the military to pressure laws schools in Washington into providing any recruiting support and assistance, but also strengthen the argument—and establish a legal precedent—that the Solomon Amendment doesn’t require law schools anywhere to provide active cooperation or assistance to military recruiters...
...since the late 1980s and most recently established an entertainment conglomerate called Star East Holdings Ltd., which last year produced the movies The Eye and Three as well as the TV drama The New Option. He spends much of his time in China, where he is trying to strengthen ties between the mainland's entertainment industry and Hong Kong's. He's even begun building a performing-arts university in Beijing, in part to scout out young talent...
...advisory panel will also recommend that the President name a bipartisan civil liberties oversight board - drawing members from across the political spectrum, academia and the private sector - to assess the impact on civil liberties of anti-terror measures such as the Patriot Act and proposals to strengthen it. The report suggests that greater oversight is required for any use of U.S. spy satellites on targets inside the United States, and that legislation may be required to set the rules. Since September 11, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's spy satellites have been increasingly pointed inside U.S. borders in support...