Word: strengthening
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Second, the expression of "false" opinion, while offensively challenging those ideas we hold most sacred, only serves to strengthen these same ideals. It is through intense competition of conflicting ideas in which a quasi- "natural selection" occurs: ideals with the most vitality naturally survive...
...action on a bill that would make it a federal crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, to blockade an abortion clinic. At a meeting with the President on Thursday, members of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues urged him to support legislation that would strengthen federal antistalking laws. The President, says Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder, "was fully in agreement that this was a real crisis...
Yeltsin was preparing for two events in April -- a summit meeting with Bill Clinton and a national referendum on whether Russians favored a parliamentary or presidential republic -- that he hoped would strengthen his hand against the opponents of change. Khasbulatov pre-empted him by calling in the 1,033- member Congress, a mainly naysaying group elected back in March 1990 when communism was still the power in the land. The parliamentary leader was determined to establish once and for all that the legislators, not the President, were constitutionally empowered to run the country...
Part of the diplomacy involves keeping Russia on the West's team. President Boris Yeltsin is under heavy pressure from parliament to join forces with Russia's traditional Slav allies, the Serbs. A way to strengthen the existing bond, Washington has decided, is to bring the Russians into the airlift. Moscow has agreed, and five U.S. Air Force officers are to fly there this week to plan Russian participation, which will include flying cargo missions to Bosnia from NATO bases in Germany and Italy -- the first U.S.-Russian joint operations since World...
...want and won't use? If you're an American taxpayer, you may have no choice. Israel has staged a successful rocket launch with its ARROW anti-tactical missile system, a feat that will help bolster arguments that U.S. funding of the Israeli / project should continue. To strengthen Israel's security, the U.S. has spent $126 million on the Arrow and plans to pick up two-thirds of the projected $322 million in future development costs. The U.S. has no plans to purchase the system for itself, but when the rockets go into production, America may help buy some...