Word: strengthing
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...mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family," he said. "We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ! In the light of faith, we will then discover the wisdom and strength needed to open ourselves to a point of view, which may not necessarily conform to our own ideas." This call for unity comes from a Pope who was seen as a touchstone for much of the divisions when he was a senior Vatican Cardinal...
...view have very little to do with their economic condition," McCain said in a speech at the Associated Press annual meeting in Washington. And in case that didn't hit the spot, McCain offered a side order of butter to those voters, whom he called "the foundation of our strength and the primary authors of its essential goodness...
...airlines are trying to patch together closer alliances through investment or gain strength through mergers. Lufthansa recently bought a 19% stake in JetBlue, hoping to take advantage of JetBlue's strong presence in New York City to expand its reach with U.S. passengers. On April 14, Delta and Northwest agreed to a $3 billion merger, and a Continental-United union could be next. "Foreign carriers are merging to grow larger and financially stronger, and U.S. carriers have to match that to remain competitive," says Giovanni Bisignani, head of the International Air Transport Association...
...that he perceives literature not as just a means of entertainment, but as a powerful social force, an attitude that has its roots in the literary criticism of the great 19th-century Russian thinker Vissarion Belinsky—and one that is both the novel’s greatest strength and its ultimate downfall.Ostensibly, “Literary Men” is about three young men, Keith (Gessen’s fictional alter ego), Mark, and Sam—all with some literary or academic pretensions, all extremely reflective and self-obsessed—who drift through various complicated love...
Blaming American economic woes on a crisis of confidence rather than a shortage of liquidity, business magnate Sam Zell presented a confident view of the nation’s financial strength to the Harvard community yesterday at a talk at Gund Hall. Zell, a billionaire who was ranked #52 on the most recent list of richest Americans by Forbes magazine, came to Cambridge at the invitation of the Real Estate Academic Initiative, a campus faculty group. The Chicago native expressed disappointment with the “demagogic” economic language of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...