Word: strengthing
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...President, Poppy is depicted as having the strength to use U.S. military might to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and the wisdom - not the weakness - to stop short of Baghdad. Stone seems to admire him more than any other President he's depicted. (In JFK, Kennedy was a hallowed ghost figure.) His Bush Sr. might be a Lyndon Johnson who somehow got the country in and out of Vietnam with a win and few U.S. casualties. This 41 - this war hero, this fearless leader - could never have been impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Dana Carvey...
...dedication of a park bench in Laramie built for her son. She had also made time to do interviews with more reporters than she could count, all while trying to cope with her emotions at the 10-year mark of her son's murder. As usual, Judy's strength was stirring. Like many gay men of my generation - I'm six years older than Matt would have been - I see her as a powerfully maternal figure...
Boris Johnson, London's charismatic, mop-haired mayor, takes issue with the notion of overdependence, saying that the city's economy has "a very, very wide base." But he tells TIME: "The strength of the financial sector is obviously pretty important in acting as a flywheel to spin those other wheels. And I'm going to be fighting very hard to make sure that we don't in any way gum up that machine...
...city with affordable housing, great parks and recreation, rich cultural and sports scenes, and surviving industry clusters that were globally competitive--a helpful thing when recession returns. "We've done a really good job at coming to terms with how to manage. Our weaknesses 25 years ago led to strength. We're much stronger as a result of our struggles," says Mike Anselmo, regional manager of PNC Financial, a dominant bank in the area. Anselmo's firm is a case in point. Unlike so many larger banks that got tangled in the subprime scam, PNC Financial avoided exposure to derivatives...
Welch said he did not know whether his bill would pass next year, and cited the strength of the “higher education lobby” as a potential stumbling block...