Word: strengthening
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...reason for Adenauer's stand was his conviction (based on "intelligence sources") that Khrushchev is currently engaged in some kind of power struggle in Moscow, as evidenced by the dismissal of the hated police boss Ivan Serov (see below), and that an uncompromising Western stand on Berlin would strengthen the hand of Nikita's critics within the Politburo. The Kremlin has indeed been sounding an uncertain note of late, in its diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that...
...evidence of this intention by his appointment last week of 23 new cardinals, expanding the college from its 372-year-old limit of 70 to a new strength of 75-with the prospect of still further expansion to come. Most significant result of the new appointments will be to strengthen the administrative machinery of the church-the Curia-which Pius XII, no man to delegate wide authority, had neglected during the last few years. The Curia now has 24 instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College of Cardinals is now up from...
...Secretary of the Navy intends the college-taught psychology course to strengthen the officers' leadership ability," Captain Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Science, explained. "Our problem is to choose the right course, and this is difficult because the University offers little in the way of applied psychology...
...major changes in the Naval Science curriculum are being considered to strengthen both the enrollment and the training being offered by the University's Naval ROTC...
...main problems facing the Catholic Church in Latin America are a shortage of priests and heavy inroads by Protestantism. To overcome them, Archbishop Antonio Samore, a member of the Vatican State Secretariat, described a "positive" approach. "We are not against anyone or anything," he said. "We just strive to strengthen our own faith, to increase the number of our priests and to make their work more effective...