Word: strengthened
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...States still holds towards Cuba, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is nevertheless committed to fostering academic exchange with Cuban institutions. The Cuban Studies Program, established in 1999, strives to bring together faculty and students who study Cuba, to assist Cuban scholars and scientists, and to strengthen institutional bonds of study. According to Lybia M. Rivera, Cuba Program Coordinator, the program has been vastly successful thus far, bringing Cuban scholars to the United States, organizing academic conferences, and making strides in a variety of studies, from tropic medicine to social policy. It functions with the belief that...
...Harvard have to offer.Stories like these have made it impossible for me—and, I suspect, the other writers whom I’ve been lucky enough to call friends—to cover Harvard sports with complete objectivity. Far from interfering with our coverage, these connections strengthen it. I don’t cover Harvard teams because it’s my job (it’s not) or because these teams are the best in the country at what they do (though occasionally, they are). I cover them because sports and college are about making connections...
...task force could try to make the Fiat proposal work, using the leverage of bankruptcy to force concessions and the Treasury's wallet to refinance the debt and recapitalize operations as debtor in possession. Some task-force members argued that, painful as it would be, liquidating Chrysler would strengthen the survivors - GM and Ford...
...Marriage and Family found that a man's involvement in his partner's pregnancy - trips to the doctor, childbirth classes, etc. - was the best way to secure his long-term dedication. Lead author Natasha Cabrera of the University of Maryland says, "It is the decision that couples make to strengthen commitment and move in together that is important, rather than marital status...
...member at the nation's largest financial-services firms. Banks and other financial-services firms have long filled their boards with nonfinancial executives, be they industrial chiefs, heads of nonprofits or professors. That's been changing in recent years, especially with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, which sought to strengthen corporate boards. But apparently the changes have not gone far enough. (See pictures of the stock market crash...