Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petri also cited the need for Republicans to strengthen their appeal to young professionals and to take the lead in reexamining and re-organizing State constitutions...
...year, the health ministry has done practically nothing to publicize the cancer reports. Turkey's newspapers patriotically contend that smoking of artificially flavored foreign cigarettes may be harmful but that there is no danger in enjoying the state monopoly's smokes, made from "pure" Turkish tobacco. To strengthen its own depleted treasury, the Algerian government is stepping up production in cigarette factories. South Korea protects its tobacco monopoly by forbidding the sale of foreign smokes; offenders are sometimes arrested right on the streets...
These touches are funny, and when they work smoothly, add sparkle to the show. But they don't attack the real problem. They strengthen the sack, when they should ask the lady inside to reduce. Ubu Roi needs some ruthless cutting and directional pacing. The Quincy House Dining Room isn't big enough to take two and a half hours of shouting. Have the lady skip a meal and rest quietly for a minute, the she'll bounce over the finish line ahead of everybody...
Crooks said yesterday that he hopes the new facilities will strengthen "the other way of going to Harvard...
...there an alternative to withdrawal or commitment of U.S. fighting forces to Vietnam? There is no easy answer. But two Harvard professors, Stanley Hoffmann and John Kenneth Galbraith, have suggested a strategy that may have less wrong with it than any other. It is to stop the bombing, strengthen land forces, clear and hold the cities and provinces still friendly with the Saigon government, and open negotiations for a settlement. This way Saigon could threaten the continued disunity of the country until a solution satisfactory to the Catholics, city-dwellers, and others who have been America's allies is reached...