Word: strengthening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attempt to excite African-American voters and strengthen his kingmaking role in the next presidential campaign, which he may enter as a candidate, JESSE JACKSON has been urging prominent black politicians to run for the U.S. Senate. So far his blandishments have fallen flat. Jackson admits that ALAN C. PAGE, the retired Minnesota Viking defensive lineman, is "reluctant" to give up a safe seat on the state supreme court to vie for the Senate slot occupied by Republican ROD GRAMS. Former Agriculture Secretary MIKE ESPY cites personal reasons for not running against Mississippi's TRENT LOTT: he not only owes...
Although Buell said the appointments were "notdesigned as replacements or equivalents" to thethree junior faculty who have announced plans toleave Harvard, he said the department's selectionsaimed to strengthen the areas in which the currentFaculty could not meet student demand...
...reported on China's program to buy new weapons and strengthen its military [WORLD, Feb. 1]. Today's Chinese race for arms could very well be tomorrow's American race for survival. Americans are financing the military buildup in China every time we buy an item made there. Several hundred made-in-China coffeemakers could equal one AK-47. We must never underestimate the Chinese just because their military equipment may be crude. The Viet Cong's weapons were crude, and look at what happened in Vietnam. JAMES A. CARROLL Green Creek...
...both sides (and we believe it should), Radcliffe could at last focus on doing what it does best--supporting and funding gender research on a national scale--instead of hanging onto its no-longer accurate title and image of an undergraduate college. Harvard could take the opportunity to strengthen its support of female students now that Radcliffe would no longer be the fall-back on Garden Street...
Advanced Standing is an established program whose educational merit is rarely questioned. In May 1954 the Faculty of Arts of Sciences voted to institute the program "in order to strengthen the continuity between secondary school and college and between college and graduate school, and to encourage able and mature students to enter the most advanced courses for which they are prepared." And tomorrow, nearly 45 years later, a new crop of first-years will file petitions for sophomore status. But since I filed my own such petition three years ago I have wondered: Is Advanced Standing an academically sound program...