Word: strengthen
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...officially and in full last week, the report of the panel's majority gave critics more to complain about than their wildest fantasies could have conjured up. Not only is pornography guiltless as a cause of crime, delinquency, deviance or emotional disturbance, said the majority, it can actually strengthen conjugal ties...
...local control system would strengthen the U. S.-GVN, the report says, because it would...
...then used this to put pressure on individuals and groups of individuals and institutions-the scapegoats he had identified for society-to make their practices conform to his followers' view of how they should behave. The successes he achieved in this way would in turn serve to maintain and strengthen his political ascendancy. It was not a particularly attractive period in our history...
Thieu remained aloof from the election, thus being able to claim victory no matter which three of the 16 slates won. The election, in fact, was expected to strengthen the President's hold on the Senate, which in the past has been the only source of effective legal opposition to his regime...
...keen ambition of Lin Piao. The longtime defense chief knows full well that his chances of succeeding Mao some day depend on close ties with the army commanders in the provinces. It became Huang's task, when Lin promoted him to Chief of Staff 15 months ago, to strengthen those ties. Along the way, Huang has been making some ties of his own. To sidestep the aging marshals in the Peking Pentagon known as the Military Affairs Commission, Huang set up a small administrative office, from which he and a group of supporters effectively run the army. In serving...