Word: supplemented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invention, the need overran the obstacles. "Of course one has to imitate," remarked one old Paris hand, a Western-style painter named Mitsutani Kunishiro, in 1931. "Even if we want to create works that are uniquely Japanese, we still need to look at Western paintings in order to supplement our own deficiencies...
...fighter pilot: close-cropped hair, aviator sunglasses and, of course, the classic brown leather flight jacket. Unlike Navy flyers, like the one Cruise portrayed, Air Force pilots have not been issued leather jackets since the late 1940s. Last month the Air Force won congressional approval for a plan to supplement the current supply of synthetic jackets with genuine leather. Although several Congressmen grumbled about the $7.4 million cost, Air Force Chief of Staff General Larry Welch argued that the jackets will enhance esprit de corps and perhaps improve lagging rates of re-enlistment...
...survey of some 25 depressed areas in eight states, the task force concluded that despite steady economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely regularly on food banks and soup kitchens to supplement their diets. Among the reasons cited for the high level of hunger: restrictions on food-stamp eligibility and the failure to raise the minimum wage...
Wolfe has been chronicling the behavior of the city's haves and have-mores since 1962, when he joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general-assignment reporter and quickly became the main attraction of the newspaper's Sunday magazine supplement. His timing, like his trademark white suit, was impeccable and dramatic. After two-stepping through the Eisenhower era, America was ready to rock 'n' roll. Wolfe covered the arrival of the Beatles for their first U.S. tour and caught the moment with a description of hysterical fans throbbing like alien protoplasm against the plate glass of the airport...
Many of the current Hill staffers who graduatedfrom the Kennedy School say they had to experimentbefore they realized how best to apply the skillsthey acquired in Cambridge. Most have tried boththe public and the private sectors, and many havedegrees in law or business to supplement theirKennedy School diplomas...