Word: strengthing
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...potential problem is that MLB's excellent website, mlb.com, already satisfies this fix for many fans. For $14.95 per month, you can even watch out-of-market games on the site. Plus, despite baseball's overall economic strength, its television ratings dropped like a sinker last season. Fox's regular-season baseball ratings fell 13%, while ESPN's shrunk 7%, and 15 local networks that broadcast baseball saw double-digit ratings declines for their games. The 2008 World Series, between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays, was the least watched in history. In that respect, the new network...
Peter--who was like a son to me--was a good friend and a man who adored his family. He was extremely devoted to his wife and two children--and rabid about his dog. He was a man who possessed the rare combination of capability, moral strength and unselfishness. Much of the debate about foreign policy tends to group people into realists or idealists, but this is not a meaningful distinction. To conduct foreign policy, you have to understand the world as it is, but to avoid stagnation, the country also needs a vision of the future. The essence...
...Though Huntington’s views sparked heated debate among international relations theorists, the strength of his ideas and methods of presentation won him popularity among students, according to long-time friend and former Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Henry Rosovsky...
...Kitt's persevering through a life that began hard and was never less than challenging - her ability to thrive in good times and survive all the other times - demanded the strength and resilience of a creature sturdier than a house cat. A tiger, perhaps. When she died on Dec. 25 at 81 in Connecticut, she had been enticing and educating the public for more than 60 years. Kitt succumbed to colon cancer on Christmas day, just as thousands, perhaps millions of old-timers were playing some Yuletide CD containing her seasonal ode to seduction, Santa Baby. (See TIME...
...easy prey to forced marriages." Immigrants struggling to retain their cultural identity in their adopted homelands need reassurance that rejecting these norms will not leave them destitute community outcasts. Otherwise, says Talib, cases like Abedin's are sure to be the exception and not the rule: "Without mustering personal strength of initiative and independence, it is difficult to imagine anyone turning to the Forced Marriage Act for redress...