Word: complementing
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Although the organizers stress that this would not be the ultimate goal of the project, they are also considering publishing a collection of the edited theses next year, as a complement to the professors' book...
...parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the knee. Recently imported from Paris, the short, short skirt has been gleefully adopted by the avant-garde among U.S. teen-agers and coeds as the perfect complement to patterned stockings and leather boots-usually white. From San Francisco coffeehouses to Manhattan discotheques, girls are beginning to reveal more thigh than they have stocking to cover...
...doesn't care to. Last week, in his debut as the starting signal-caller, Colombo directed a well-balanced offense, as the Crimson gained 164 yards in the air and 274 on the ground. If he lets his running backs go to work again, it may nicely complement the softness of the visiting defense against the run--472 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground against UMass in two games...
While Bok has receives widespread praise for his work in expanding these nascent arrangements, national anti-apartheid groups criticize his contention that the programs are a substitute for--as opposed to a complement to--other actions, such as divestiture...
Part of the blame for the rising number of failures belongs to the recession and its complement of bankruptcies and defaulted loans. But increasingly, the problems are due to poor bank management. Says an FDIC attorney: "We find examples of actionable negligence on the part of bank officers and directors in virtually every case of a closed bank...