Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woodrow Wilson to address France's parliament, Bill Clinton spoke easily and confidently, reading from transparent TelePrompTer screens that fascinated the French. He neatly dissected his desire to make foreign policy by international consensus -- and the drawbacks to that approach. The Atlantic allies, at this "moment of decision," must strengthen their unity, but the task now was one particularly difficult for democracies: "To unite our people when they do not feel themselves in imminent peril...
...reinvent whole aspects of American public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families, and rebuild the fabric of the inner cities than any other antipoverty program on the table...
...state legislator, Barrett has also sponsored bills intended to guarantee gay and lesbian rights ban assault weapons and strengthen the rights of housing tenants...
Most schools--and the FAS as well--look to strengthen financial aid with the new funds...
Noordin Sopiee, head of Malaysia's Institute of Strategic and International Studies, dismisses partial sanctions as "a compromise which will satisfy no one and will merely strengthen Clinton's image as a wishy-washy leader. It's a crazy idea, and it won't work." American experts agree; Lyn Edinger, a former commercial counselor at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, says, "Targeting state enterprises will be a nightmare and virtually unenforceable." The owners of many Chinese factories are a mixture of private, state, military and sometimes even American interests; figuring out which companies to penalize could drive the U.S. Customs...