Word: strengthened
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...expanding its uranium enrichment capabilities in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze that activity. IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei also noted that Iran was three to eight years away from having the capability to produce a nuclear weapon. "My view is that we need to strengthen our sanction regime," Bush said, adding that he and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had discussed plans to beef up punitive U.N. measures...
...strengthen ties with industry and bring more inventions to the marketplace, Harvard has hired Isaac T. Kohlberg to reorganize its historically lethargic tech transfer office...
...agency pointed out that other studies of the drug have reached different conclusions, it nonetheless will take up the issue of the cardiovascular risk of Avandia and similar drugs with an advisory committee "as soon as one can be convened." Earlier data about Avandia prompted the FDA to strengthen the drug's warning label last year. The FDA also disclosed that GSK recently provided its own meta-analysis of Avandia patients, which found a 30% to 40% greater risk of heart attack than patients in a control group. "These data, if confirmed, would be of significant concern," the FDA statement...
...This partial solution has many failings, not least that it would afford Musharraf a further five years of substantial political power. But it would separate the role of President and army chief, thus allowing the military to step back from directly running the country. It would strengthen democracy by allowing the Prime Minister to speak with the real authority that comes from representing a majority of the population. And it would set a precedent for judicial independence in a land where that has been sorely lacking. If Musharraf is to have a positive role in the future of the country...
...Moscow Patriarchate take over its rival American-based cousin and launch a new globalized Church as his state's main ideological arm and a vital foreign policy instrument. In February press conference, Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei Filatov, a top authority on Russian religious affairs notes that "traditional confessions" is the state's shorthand for the Russian Orthodox Church...