Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With one freshman, John Sanacore, already playing with the varsity, Scalisefeels his crop can strengthen the presently dismal Harvard soccer program in the years to come...
...challenge to authority that is now upon us can strengthen and renew institutions as much as it can weaken them. And it can be fun. There is always room, as George Orwell wrote, 'for one more custard...
...style are certain. Gambino preferred peaceful solutions. He limited membership in the Mafia, ostensibly to lessen the risk that informants might join the families but actually to keep down the numbers he had to oversee. Gambino's would-be successors believe in expanding membership-in part to strengthen their own forces and provide themselves with point men for any future Mafia shootouts. For the past three years, they have brought into the country, via Montreal, a number of young, hardened, reliable Sicilian gangsters called "greenhorns," or "greenies." Finally, Gambino opposed Mob involvement in the narcotics trade, but gangsters like...
...subsidies to other Arab nations-of the Saudis' King Khalid. At the end of the two-day summit, the six-Khalid, Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah of Kuwait, the Presidents of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat-had hammered out an agreement that will strengthen Syria's hand as a peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians. Leaders on both sides in the Lebanon fighting hailed the deal as a promising start. "It's the best that could be had under the circumstances," said Lebanese Premier Rashid...
...retain some sympathy for the radicals' views. Still, the more Utopian of the leftist policies will probably be quietly dropped in favor of greater pragmatism. This will presumably mean financial incentives in industry, mechanization in agriculture, an emphasis on technical knowledge rather than "Redness" and an attempt to strengthen the armed forces with more technologically sophisticated weapons-all moves the radicals have resisted...