Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verrier said that in future experiments the research team will try to find exactly how the neural mechanism works on the heart and what treatment is effective in preventing heart failure. He said it may be possible to develop drug or psychological therapy to strengthen the heart through the nervous system...
...Congratulations on your superb editorial [Nov. 121. In these hysterical times, TIME is one of the first voices to submit that the resignation of Mr. Nixon would be only a tremor to strengthen us, not an earthquake to bring us down. Your logical and responsible editorial puts it all into perspective when we the people desperately need some perspective...
...more often, the relationship between members' psychological responses to issues and the program a group may be trying to work out offers the potential to strengthen both the group and its members. It is in this context that both women's and men's groups are useful and necessary...
...courts and Congress and led even the most loyal Americans to feel on occasion like strangers in a strange land. Now the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., are appealing to a higher source. They have devised a prayer for a "government of integrity," calling upon the deity "to strengthen and inspire our representatives to pass legislation that will emancipate us from cancerous greed and conspiratorial secrecy." In Detroit, Archbishop John Cardinal Dearden issued a pastoral letter that noted, "These are difficult days for the country we love," and asked observance of the first three Fridays in November as days...
...leader, he implies, could marshal enormous support "from below" because of widespread discontent over "the slow pace of economic, social and cultural progress, the bureaucratic system, mismanagement, lack of information and the lagging behind Western countries in many respects." Medvedev fears that pressures from the West could backfire and strengthen the hand of regressive elements. Indeed, he observes that there has already been an alarming "shift to the right in our political and social life." Still, he is ultimately optimistic, concluding that "the more distant prospect is that detente will undoubtedly promote broadening of democratic rights and freedoms...