Word: complementation
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...ever known; 2) that American capitalism (unlike European capitalism), remains dynamic through competition, and greases the social escalator by rewarding brains and skill wherever found; 3) that social equality fosters the production of more wealth, and the production of more wealth fosters social equality-i.e., democracy and capitalism complement each other...
...program, which was run last year on a trial basis, will complement the College's regular advising system he those freshmen who show enough interest, Shapiro said. The Council has already sent letters to freshmen who are the only ones to come from their high-schools, and those who returned slips signifying their interest have been assigned advisors...
...offensive or that they expected the talks to fail. The U.N. was also diligently plugging away at a buildup of its own. The Air Force was diverting the 116th Bomber Wing, originally earmarked for NATO, to Korea. The Navy was sending over the carrier Essex, two cruisers, a complement of destroyers. Though the Army and Marine Corps were rotating personnel rapidly, the flow of replacements made sure that there would be no weakening of ground strength...
Plans for Central Park were laid just a century ago. Olmsted spent most of the rest of his life making the dream come true. His aim was "to complement. . . the beauty of the town [with] the beauty of the fields, the meadow, the prairie, of the green pastures and still waters." It was not easy. The region chosen for the park was an unsightly swamp laced with bald rock ridges and pimpled with squatters' shacks. To see it whole and make it new required optimism and an unwavering mind...
...bound to the roads because their vehicles cannot negotiate the terrain off the roads. Even the movement of our foot soldiers is restricted . .. because supplies must be brought to them by vehicles. Thus, the enemy is able to advance in other areas, infiltrating and outflanking . . . With a proper complement of mounted units, cavalry, pack artillery and pack trains, because of their great cross-country mobility, the enemy infiltration and flank attacks could have been checked or prevented...