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...emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes for his Christian Democrats would intimi date his opponents. The people failed to respond to the president's pleas for a vote of confidence, giving his party only 35% of the vote. That outcome can only strengthen the obduracy of his enemies...
...dissatisfaction continuum in them. For the 1964 sample only, students who admitted they had felt out of place, or who said they were not having a very good time at Harvard were overrepresented in the psychiatric group. Although the association could not be replicated, the data do tend to strengthen our findings about the dissatisfaction variable...
...elected, Galbraith hopes to use ADA as "a voice for the pent-up feelings people have about the government and to strengthen the voice of the academic community in government affairs." He emphatically denied speculation that he hopes to move the academic community toward the Kennedy wing of the Democratic party...
...fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount of wax was on the skis...
...fact, O'Leary asserts that "if the Government follows reasonably appropriate policies, some of the things that it is already doing will strengthen the economy, and we will see a rise in the second half of this year." All of which may run him the risk of getting the next presidential TV encomium...