Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women must strengthen our voice in religious establishments," said Edelman, who is also an author and the former director of Harvard's Center for Law and Education...
...always a political act, always a political and ethical necessity. The craven rationalizations that keep the closeted entombed--the conviction that being out makes no difference--are as groundless as they are deadly. They cripple queer movements at their seminal moment (the avowal of queer identity) even as they strengthen heterosexual privilege by disappearing within...
These impediments, however, are counterbalanced by innovations in travel, telecommunications, social understanding, health and life expectancy. Savvy parents and grandparents are harnessing these to strengthen intergenerational ties. "We have to reinvent ourselves as we go along, but we have more time to get it right," says Lillian Carson, a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...nomination to the court and her current selection have been mired by controversy, she has handled it smoothly. And her status as a veteran of the SJC counters those who say her experience is inadequate. Her confirmation as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts can only strengthen the state's judicial branch...
...Russert as to how his comments would play to the nearly 3 million Minnesotans who are religious, Ventura said "...being weak-minded is not necessarily a detriment, Tim. It just means that you have a weakness and, therefore, you go to organized religion to help strengthen yourself...