Word: strengthening
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...challenge ahead will be to deliver care at a reasonable price without compromising safety. Perhaps the only benefit of highly publicized cases like Betsy Lehman's is that they will spur hospitals to strengthen the safeguards needed to keep such tragedies as uncommon as possible...
...speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and David Pryor of Arkansas -- may join the retirement list...
Councillors criticized MIT officials for eliminating an institution designed to educate Cambridge residents. In return for MIT's city tax exemption, councillors said the institute should work to strengthen community ties...
...Movement to Strengthen Marriage...
...federal law, used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him. Last week, even in the face of the federal suit, the Nevada state senate passed a measure that sought to strengthen the state's claims to federal lands...