Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decaying labs and desperately low salaries have made hiring another FDA travail. Some important drug-review posts have an annual turnover rate of 20%. At least one former FDA official believes many new employees use their stint at the agency to bolster resumes that are then quickly circulated to industry...
...Tennessee Democrat, advocates that assistance be refocused on "leapfrogging" technologies, like low-emission power plants, so that nations may better the lives of their people without repeating the mistakes of the industrial world. But to develop better technologies, says Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the U.S. will have to bolster its faltering science education...
...University haggles over the final details in a planned $2 billion fundraising drive, Bok and other top administrators say they are trying to steer Harvard toward the future. They want to broaden the University's international focus, to strengthen undergraduate education, to maintain Harvard's infrastructure and to bolster the size of the faculty...
...program, which Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott said yesterday could eventually earn $300,000 to $500,000 a year, will be used to bolster financial aid funds...
...pushing and pulling among allies will bolster Bush's wariness if Gorbachev delivers a surprise of the sort that caught Ronald Reagan off balance in Reykjavik. Much more likely are broader philosophical explorations of the future course of the superpower relationship and a series of small but still significant incremental steps on trade, chemical weapons and nuclear testing. But White House aides have been hinting for several weeks that Bush will not be going to Malta empty-handed. If past experience is any guide, Bush will not decide to play whatever cards he is carrying until he arrives in Malta...