Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, cracking down on the gun industry is easier to write about than to achieve. Passing meaningful gun-control legislation in American society has proved nearly impossible. Politicians who attempt to strengthen gun laws only end up strengthening their opponents' wallets. In the face of such a formidable lobby, civil law suits are the government's only option to control the flow of guns. Lawsuits allow politicians to appear tough on crime while in reality passing the buck onto the court system. They hope that targeted companies will lose large enough verdicts so that the monetary interests of manufacturers fall...
...debate on these and other issues seems ever more intractable, will colleges with student bodies and affiliations on both sides of the political spectrum increasingly shut out dissenters? That would not only threaten the free discourse that makes universities special places; it would also accomplish little except to further strengthen the prevailing opinions of the masses. If you want to see affirmative action reinstated or abortion banned, leave the classroom behind and work on changing the minds of the voters...
...frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
Chen said the increased stringency of First Nights may reflect and effort to strengthen all courses on the part of the Core Committee...
While it is true that Nazi propagandists appropriated Germanic and Norse mythology in their glorification of German nationalism, it is untrue that "Scandinavian literature was influenced by the Nazis." In reality, it was the Nazis who attempted to assimilate this Scandinavian literature in an effort to further strengthen their own 'Aryan' identity. MARCELLINE BLOCK '01 ELIZABETH A. CHIAPPA '01 SARAH B. SCHAUSS '01 JENNIFER K. WESTHAGEN...