Word: strengthen
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...Geneva last June between GAM's leadership-in-exile in Sweden and the government brought about a cease-fire arrangement known as a "humanitarian pause," which has been extended more than once. But the military believe that the frequently breached cease-fires have only given GAM room to strengthen its position...
...that, says Goodheart, may help strengthen a weakened organ. Goodheart believes that muscles and organs are linked by the same invisible neuropathways and meridian lines tweaked by acupuncturists. It took Goodheart years to ferret out the connections: the shoulders' deltoids map to the lungs; glutei maximi in the butt to the prostate; and the psoas that run through the groin to kidneys...
...Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen...
...with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez obstreperously abstaining on the same gotta-check-with-my-congress grounds that everybody else felt free to ignore, and the summit ended not only with an "action plan" - a commitment of $20 billion from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to strengthen democratic foundations in the Americas and prepare for free trade among nations at widely disparate levels of development - but also with some language right out of Bush's "compassionate conservatism" file: a promise to create a hemisphere in which "no one is left behind...
...hemisphere's cooperation on social issues is already producing results. Canada has supported the work of the Pan American Health Organization in implementing its measles-eradication strategy and has worked with hemispheric partners, especially in the Caribbean, to strengthen national plans to fight HIV/AIDS. Yet this is only a beginning. It is clear that in addition to celebrating and savoring the incredible diversity of the Americas, we must continue our efforts to ensure that all our citizens can achieve their full potential and have their rightful voice and role in the development of our respective societies...