Word: complementing
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...first glance, they seem an unlikely combination. Slim, suave, well-tailored Rowland Evans, 45, is the very model of a cosmopolitan correspondent. Swarthy, slangy, excitable Robert Novak, 35, often acts like a Chicago police reporter. Yet professionally, the two men complement each other perfectly; they have merged their talents in a joint political column, "Inside Report," that has a faster-growing readership than any of its competitors. Begun in 1963 with only 35 clients, "Inside Report" is now carried by 135 newspapers...
Among the many future uses that Cramer envisions for speeded speech is "auditory speed reading." In the Harvard Remedial Reading course the addition of a sound track has been proposed to complement the movies
...stimulate the students to read, discuss, seek answers, design and perform experiments--in other words, to promote those highly individualistic exercises--usually away from the classroom--which for each student constitute the real educational experience. The core curriculum would also stimulate students to seek elective courses which would complement in depth the topics emphasized in the core curriculum...
...heart is becoming more and more accessible to surgical repair. Along with surgical ingenuity, the devices that have made much open-heart surgery feasible are the mechanical pumps that complement the blood-circulating functions of living tissue. Last week two such machines scored dramatic advances...
...unmusical tone-blending inherent in such a combination of instruments. But, Mr. Wright and the quartet produced a sound that successfully exploited the instrumentation as a vehicle for musical expression. Rather than stand out as an unwelcome intrusion into a string quartet, the clarinet functioned as a perfectly natural complement to the strings. The end result was a performance that left virtually nothing to be desired...