Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current bid for re-authorization contains some potential amendments which would strengthen and help regulate the Clean Water Act. Congress has an obligation to see these amendments through and create an act that truly lives up to its goals...
...important step toward ridding our nation's waters of hazardous chlorine-based pollutants like dioxin, which is reported to cause damage in undeveloped fetuses. The amendment bans the discharge of organochlorines, the product of chlorine-based bleaching in the manufacture of pulp and paper. Proposals like these can strengthen the Clean Water Act and help create a safer environment...
Bachrach says he also plans to strengthen daycare and job training programs...
...search process is inordinately complicated," Damrosch said. "We already knew that the 19th and 20th centuries both are areas that we need to expand. Even if he had not gone, we would have needed to strengthen the modern periods...
...predict with confidence what philosophical views the North Korean leadership has about war and peace." But, he concludes, "I see no imminent danger of military actitivies." Nevertheless, the Pentagon is re-examining its contingency plans for South Korea, and it plans what Perry called "further moves that strengthen our + defensive forces" -- even though the U.S. realizes Pyongyang will regard those actions as provocative...