Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Victoria L. Holloway '90, president of the orchestra, said that the concert attendance of 210 was better than expected. Vosgerchian's appearance, she said, was part of the group's recent attempt to heighten its quality and attract renowned outside soloists...
Proceeds from the event will go to the Vietnam Veterans Workshop of Boston. This non-profit organization seeks to heighten consciousness of the Vietnam War and provide services to the war's veterans, particularly the many homeless veterans in the Boston area Balson said...
Holmes recommends that a course or official discussions of American racial and ethnic groups would be helpful, particularly during freshman year. Such a program, she explains, would heighten racial sensitivity. "Everyone makes different racial discoveries, and that is the first step toward a solution...
...cash to pay off insured depositors (up to $100,000 for each account) of Costa Mesa's North America Savings and Loan Association and the American Diversified Savings Bank. The payout, which temporarily slashes the federal insurance fund's cash balance by 40%, to $1.9 billion, is likely to heighten the debate over the adequacy of the FSLIC's resources to deal with the troubled thrift industry...
...last month, he made a stunning recantation. He had invented the murder story, he tearfully claimed, because he was ashamed to tell the truth: Holland had begged him to wrap a rope around her neck to produce a state of near suffocation, called sexual asphyxia, that is said to heighten erotic pleasure. In his excitement, he said, he pulled too hard. Nassau County Prosecutor Kenneth Littman derided the new story as the "oops defense." But the jury found Porto guilty on only the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, a crime punishable by no more than four years in prison...