Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heighten conflict at the school, liberal students protesting discriminatory hiring practices were disciplined, sending waves of animosity through the community once more. Now the administration seemed guilty of double standards, although close examination proved the two situations sufficiently different to merit a discrepancy in administrative reaction. Still, many believed the discrepancy was a convenient manipulation of school rules in keeping with a politically partisan line...
While public figures are certainly not obliged to share the details of their various afflictions, such candor can do much to heighten awareness of preventive measures...
...they also said they would have liked him to hire more minorities, fill vacant city positions and heighten the pace of community development...
...Secondly, we hope to bring more speakers to Harvard who are interested in Latin America to heighten awareness of Latin American issues here," she said. "Latin America is sometimesignored. There is not as much interest in it as inoften areas...
Bhargava said one of her goals was "to increase our political voice on campus to heighten awareness of SAA as an ethnic organization" via stronger relations with the administration and other campus groups...