Word: strengthened
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Whoever the winner was, in the end the loser was the American voter. The debate was marked by a lack of tough questioning and vague side-stepping answers from the candidates. When Texas Gov. George W. Bush said he wanted to "strengthen the military to make sure that the world is peaceful," even the moderators were visibly frustrated. It all led to an unproductive evening...
...Kyushu, Japan. Born of Korean heritage in a place with little tolerance of foreigners (particularly Koreans), Son has fought the battles of an outsider all his life. He bore the boyhood name-calling stoically and tried to toughen himself physically by inserting weights in his shoes to strengthen his legs (the better to play soccer). He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken...
Supporters of antitrust law argue that decisions like Judge Jackson's actually strengthen the free market. The new economy--and America's unprecedented run of growth and prosperity--has been fueled to a significant degree by small start-ups founded by entrepreneurs with big dreams. These are precisely the sort of companies that can be crushed most easily by a brutal monopolist. When antitrust law works right, it can give these enterprising small firms room to grow. "There are a lot of companies that have for years operated in absolute terror of Microsoft," says Sun's Morris. The ruling...
...profiteers' hijacking celebrity names in order to direct traffic to for-profit sites selling vitamins or other products. People have a right of publicity--the right to control the use of their name and likeness for commercial purposes--and it should apply online. The new House bill would rightly strengthen this kind of protection...
...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...