Word: strengthing
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...first three days after the product's introduction. "Customers are voting, and Apple is winning," CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying in an Apple press release. It was the first time Jobs had spoken for the company since he went on medical leave in January. Such strength will help offset weakness in Apple's computer business - sales were still declining on a year-over-year basis in May - until the recovery takes hold...
...know, this past year has created a set of extraordinary financial challenges for our university as it has for others. I am grateful for the continuing efforts made by people across Harvard to confront these new realities with thoughtfulness and care, and with an emphasis on sustaining the strength of our core academic programs...
That would be nice, if Brown has the strength to make a difference. But after 12 years, and facing a public whose attitude to politicians is a toxic mixture of weariness and disgust, the problem for the Prime Minister, as for Labour, will be persuading anyone to listen...
...also surrounded himself with the kind of advisers (Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton and Dennis Ross) and made the kind of symbolic gestures (holding a seder at the White House and condemning Holocaust denial in Cairo) that reassure many American Jews. Historically, Israel's American supporters have used their strength in Congress to box Presidents in a corner. But when Netanyahu came to Washington last month, even reliably pro-Israel Jewish members of Congress gave him an earful on settlements. (Watch a video about Israel's lonesome doves...
...crowd gathers around a woman and a man; they are speaking in anguished tones. The woman, older, has her face covered like so many others here: fear still remains despite the strength of numbers. I can see only red, red eyes. Chera? Chera? Why? Why? We ask who she is, what has happened. We find out that she is a mother of a young shaheed, or martyr. People reach for their phones to take a picture and the man who is comforting her beseeches them to put the cameras away, to have sympathy for her. Over the gathered shoulders...