Word: strengthen
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Instead of creating new powers for the government to crack down on terrorism, the Bush administration should work to enforce current strategies. A better approach than unfairly targeting Iraqi-Americans without cause for suspicion would be to strengthen the enforcement capabilities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to pursue foreigners who warrant scrutiny. The INS currently does not have the resources it needs to track down foreigners who over-stay their visas. Such an oversight was the reason why many of the Sept. 11 hijackers were able to stay in the country after their student visas had expired...
...precedent for the four freshmen—Moira Weigel, Allison Fast, Tina Brown and Courtney Wallach—entering the fray this season. With gaps left in the middle of the lineup after the graduation of Carlin Wing and Colby Hall, the first years will be expected to strengthen the depth of the team...
...that those votes swung Republican, and in the minds of voters, the problem wasn't that the Democratic message was obscured but that the Democrats obscured it. After examining a postelection poll of his members, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said they felt "neither party has a plan to strengthen the economy." But he added that "this is a particularly strong indictment of the Democrats. They needed to be crystal clear about what they stand for on issues of importance to workers--jobs, the economy, health care...
...panelists concurred that continued expansion of the E.U. would ultimately strengthen Europe as a whole...
...complying with the UN resolution, Saddam could certainly make life difficult for Washington hawks set on an invasion to achieve regime change in Iraq - and strengthen the hand of those in the U.S., Europe and the Arab world opposed to war. Washington hawks are more than a little anxious at the extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent...