Word: strengthened
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...Houses would be requested to provide between three and six half-term courses a year in an attempt to strengthen the House Seminar Program. House courses under the proposal would be offered for credit and grades but would be counted for departmental or basic Gen Ed requirements only by special petition...
...decision to contribute to the Radcliffe College fund is not contingent upon any particular stand on the merger versus non-merger issue. If you think Radcliffe should remain a separate institution, then dollars and cents are the insurance needed to maintain and strengthen her present status and to develop the retained functions into the hard-core of a vital women's college. If you favor merger then it must be clear that Radcliffe cannot effect an acceptable liaison with Harvard unless she has some solid footing, particularly in the realm of women's education where Harvard...
...Nixon appointment of Paul H. Nitze, a member of the delegation at the SALT talks, to the post of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs is any indication of the administration's notions of peace, the negotiations are headed for a dead end Nitze is expected to strengthen the Pentagon's position in Congress. One of the framers of the original containment doctrine during the Truman Administration and an advocate of increased Pentagon spending, Nitze believes that any relations with the Soviet Union are inherently unstable and competitive, that the U.S.S.R. will respond only to strength...
There are good reasons why successful stage-plays are filmed--at the very least, they provide a record of a performance that would otherwise disappear. And cinematic techniques can be used to strengthen the impact of the play and increase its accessibility. But reversing the process is more difficult, because some means must be found to compensate for the forfeit of all the film techniques. The Loeb Persona doesn't try to make up for these lost ingredients, and is content to deal only with those bare bones of Bergman's film which did not depend on his camera...
That finding would seem to strengthen the Jensen-Shockley argument. But Sanday also found that the IQ scores of the handful of blacks attending middle-class schools improved, while the scores of whites in lower-class schools declined. For example: scores for whites in schools where most pupils were from middle-class families rose from a mean of 105.5 in kindergarten to a mean of 108.7 in sixth grade; scores for blacks in similar schools went from a mean of 95 in kindergarten to 98.2 in sixth grade. But in schools where most students were in the lowest...