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...going to go down and do 100 push-ups?" Ronald Johnson, the retired general whom the league hired to revive trust in the referees, plays along. "I told them I prefer to see guys doing flutter kicks," Johnson says of the grueling military calisthenics exercise used to strengthen leg muscles and abs. "They'd probably start crying faster...
...debt, they may not have had the cash to pay bonuses." When asked, the Treasury would not comment directly on Wall Street's bonus plans, though spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin did reiterate the bailout's intent. "There is broad agreement that the Treasury's capital purchase program was intended to strengthen the financial system and increase lending," she said...
...pieces—all but three from the 20th century—strengthen the Museum’s holdings in contemporary and modern art, said Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Museum...
...decided to make cutting GHG emissions a campus-wide social effort to some extent, not just one for engineers and construction workers. However, in order to make environmentalism a unifying social cause on campus, and ingrain behavior that reduces GHG emissions, Harvard will have to take steps to strengthen and expand its current environmental outreach efforts...
...emulate the Shut the Sash program’s structure: setting each house a number of quantifiable resource-saving goals, and rewarding those houses that meet their goals with regular—and desirable—prizes. This would raise the Green Cup’s cost, but would strengthen the incentive for student involvement...