Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must use their experience to bring about a lasting peace. The next generation will be different-born into it. In Europe we still have a generation that formed the Atlantic Partnership. The emotional conditions of that partnership still exist, although adjustments are required. We must strengthen our relationships. Japan is emerging into great-power status for the first time since the end of the war. The underdeveloped world still needs attention, and there are crisis areas like the Middle East...
...Still, Larry Miller was not satisfied. He installed a blackboard at home and wrote out a daily training program for the boy. Each evening Johnny dutifully checked the blackboard and then performed the prescribed number of barbell exercises, push-ups and basement practice shots before going to bed. To strengthen his wrists, he was given a small rubber ball to squeeze and carry with him at all times. At 15, Johnny was a wispy 5 ft. 2 in., 110 lbs., and needed all the muscle he could get. Two years later he was 10 in. taller-strong and proficient enough...
...instead to the big commercial companies. "My predecessors at the Press felt that paperbacks were not an integral part of university press publications," Rosenthal said. "I have exactly the opposite view. We should be publishing our own best paperbacks. Our paperback list is almost first priority for us to strengthen." Through this step, as Rosenthal wrote in his Management Plan, "our own hardcover titles will be reserved for our own paperback list...
...function of the corporation than of the residents, the more equal ratio of men to women and the physical plant. The vision of Radcliffe as a potent agency for women is, as even its adherents admit, more a dream than reality. The non-merger agreement has done nothing but strengthen the tether of Radcliffe's dependence on Harvard: the President of Harvard appoints the masters of the Radcliffe Houses, and his Vice-Presidents oversee the food service, buildings and grounds and security of all students...
...second operation was a reassessment, which I ordered in 1970, of the adequacy of internal security measures. This resulted in a plan and a directive to strengthen our intelligence operations. They were protested by Mr. Hoover [J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI chief], and as a result of his protest they were not put into effect...