Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good, strong report which speaks to the issues and captures the essence of what Cambridge rent control needs," Myers said. "We must improve and strengthen the system by making it fairer to everybody, taking the tension and the anger out of the system...
...effort to strengthen Bush's will, Gorbachev told him that the dispatch of armed forces to the gulf and the active policy of the Security Council had already resolved a number of strategic tasks: armed action had not spread to other countries of the Arabian Peninsula, and an oil crisis, which had threatened the world economy as a result of both Kuwait's and Iraq's suspension of oil exports, had been averted. Gorbachev also pointed out that the stand against aggression had received international support. Now what was needed was additional diplomatic efforts...
Bourneman emphasizes that virtually all of his interviewees separated themselves from the bureaucratic evils of the state. He includes plenty of emotional and philosophical inferences to prove this point, and they strengthen this book by making these though processes accessible. "Frau Gruner's socialism always exhibited a critical distance," Borneman writes. "She learned to be skeptical of any form of established wisdom...
...long list of names attached to a letter does not strengthen the ideas expressed by the letter. An opinion page is not a voting booth--any idea, no matter how widely held, now matter how loudly expressed, can find its way into the newspaper...
...does a reporter covering a debate have the gall to report one party's claim as "the facts" and completely drop out the opposing party's claims? Werner's article is consciously or unconsciously designed to strengthen the Big Lie that justifies Cambridge's 20-year oppression and exploitation of landlords...