Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Part of the reason for the restructuring, according to analysts: TWA, which lost a record $81 million in the first eleven months of last year, has not found a top-notch executive from outside the company to succeed Tillinghast. Thus the board decided that the most effective way to strengthen the ailing line's leadership was to merge its best available talent in a single office...
...series of dams and reservoirs. The goal was to increase Canada's electrical output by 30% and stimulate the province's economy. There was also a good deal of cultural pride at stake. To the Quebecois, the project was an economic extension of a struggle to strengthen French identity...
...idea has come can be seen in the many women who denigrate the militant feminists' style ("too shrill, unfeminine") and then proceed to conduct their own newly independent lives. At year's end a Harris poll found that by 63% to 25%, Americans favor "most of the efforts to strengthen and change women's status in society." Five years ago, it was 42% in favor, 41% against...
Once underway, the study may continue to influence its subjects and their relationships. "In some cases," Rubin writes in an upcoming article in the American Psychologist coauthored by his former research assistant, Cynthia Mitchell, "our study served to strengthen a relationship; in other cases, to facilitate its dissolution." Rubin believes that the study affected, one way or the other, "considerably more than half of the couples...
First, the Strauch Committee recommended last spring that an Undergraduate Affairs Office be established to coordinate and strengthen the counseling and advising resources of undergraduates...