Word: strengthen
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...programs would weaken Hamas’s adversaries, not Hamas. Organizations receiving USAID funding are the closest thing to allies that America has in the West Bank and Gaza; they already sign a pledge that they will not support terror organizations or terrorists. America should redouble its efforts to strengthen these groups, not abandon them...
...That would be true if only because any designer who deliberately made such a queer fish would have been more of a practical joker than anything else. But it also demonstrates that while evolution has plenty of missing bits of evidence, they keep showing up all the time to strengthen it. Evolution is, as ID supporters love to say, "just" a theory. It also happens to be one of the most successful scientific theories in history, whose predictions of what should be found in the fossil record have been proven out? for the zillionth time...
...office, set to open July 1, will serve to strengthen ties between Harvard and Brazil—“the fastest growing economy in the Western hemisphere” and “a social laboratory in terms of ethnicity, social class, and gender relations,” Coatsworth said...
...could charge a management fee, which could in turn be devoted to debt relief or grant assistance, the president proposed.SUMMERS ON TOURThe president’s academic lecture on international economics was just one stop on his week-long trip to India, filled with speeches and meetings intended to strengthen Harvard’s ties to the country.At a conference held by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi on Thursday, March 23, Summers said India could benefit from playing host to more American students studying abroad.Only 0.5 percent of American university students who went...
...Lieberman says this is a giveaway of land that would only strengthen newly elected Hamas militants inside the Palestinian territories. Most political analysts dismiss this tough talk as electioneering, and say that if Olmert wins, as expected, he will probably coax Lieberman into the coalition. In that case, the eventual plan for disengaging with the Palestinians may end up being a compromise between the two proposals. Either way, it looks as though the next Israeli government will go ahead and draw up some kind of permanent boundaries - without consulting the Palestinians...