Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Atlantic patrol and antisubmarine warfare. The sale is the biggest ever made in export markets by the floundering American manufacturer, and provides a badly needed boost to Lockheed's order book and its morale. For Canada, it is the first step in an overdue effort to strengthen its military contribution to NATO...
...moderate and strike-free auto settlement would vastly strengthen that healthy trend. It also would bring to a triumphant end the union career (Woodcock, who, having turned 65, will have to retire next year, and strengthen his chances of landing a Government job -just possibly, Secretary of Labor in a Carter Administration...
...spirited desire for less government and a better world that we are fighting the Communists so fiercely. We are named for Captain John Birch, who "personified everything that the Communists hate...He lived and worked and fought and died, always literally giving the best that was in him, to strengthen those principles and beliefs which had brought human evolution and spiritual progress to its high water mark in the America he had inherited...
PATRONAGE. Over objections from three dissenters that the "timehonored" practice has served to strengthen "robust political discourse," five Justices struck a serious blow at the remnants of the patronage system. The decision came on a case in Chicago where the Daley machine has become one of the nation's foremost practitioners of rewarding political loyalists with public jobs. About 1,000 Republicans working in the Cook County sheriffs office had been routinely turned out after a Democrat was elected in 1970. The court conceded that such firings may be necessary for policymaking officials, but in the words of Justice...
...month ago, when President Ford invited six fellow world leaders to meet in Puerto Rico for a discussion of economic issues, his move was widely criticized both at home and abroad as a political ploy. The meeting was called, so went the criticism, to strengthen the President's chance of gaining the Republican nomination over Challenger Ronald Reagan. The summit did serve that purpose. Ford, who is at his best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery...