Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What kept Russia away from us was our strength. We just have to become a strong country that no one wants to fool with. I'm afraid we don't have the strength we had during the Reagan days. Back then no one wanted to mess with us. We diminished that strength through the Clinton days. We've got to get that strength back, where everyone says, "Don't mess with America, man." It's like [being] a martial artist. You walk down the street and it's like, "Don't mess with him, man. He'll kick your head...
...mentioned there are certain points on which you're critical of President Bush. Is one of them this reduction of our military's strength...
...Iraq hasn't been able to procure arms since it invaded Kuwait in 1990, and the U.S. invasion in 2003 pretty much crushed whatever military hardware Saddam Hussein had left. So Iraq is starting from scratch in rebuilding its military. "The Iraqi military is growing in strength and capability very rapidly now," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says. "They are turning into a very formidable force that not only will be able to deal with internal threats, but also handle external threats in a very dangerous part of the world." While the deal would require reviews from the Pentagon, State Department...
...took one of John McCain's biggest weaknesses among Republicans and turned it into a strength. The conservative Christian leader Richard Land has said that what makes the base of the party so uncomfortable with McCain is not so much his unorthodoxy as his sheer unpredictability. They're never sure what he'll do next. But along comes Palin, McCain's wildest move yet - the Top Gun fighter jock, alone in his jet, throwing the stick hard over just to see what might happen - and she turns out to be everything the base could dream of. For at least...
...skeptical that they've really been taken off the menu--antivamp hate crimes abound--but they're also fascinated. There's a subculture of "fangbangers" who crave vampire sex, and in a clever inversion, a brisk trade in "v," vampire blood, which intensifies the senses and acts like extra-strength Viagra...