The solution should be obvious to all: bolster the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics.
But Ward and Broniarczyk did perform a series of follow-on experiments that all bolstered their central finding.
Palaeoanthropologists, archaeologists and, more recently, geneticists have all bolstered the "out of Africa" theory, which holds that early man wandered out of the Rift Valley.
It is all bolstered with a galaxy of references from the self-indulgent worlds of literary criticism, psychoanalysis and the Situationists of the 1960s.
The purchase of Vueling, Iberia's low-cost domestic competitor, the folding in of BMI at Heathrow, and a shrinking pension deficit have all bolstered IAG.
CBS placed a strong second over all, bolstered by two crime series, "Criminal Minds" (13.35 million) and "CSI: New York" (14.84 million): both delivered their best Wednesday ratings of the season so far.
The heroic private detective of Magnum PI, the honest police commissioner of Blue Bloods, the doting father of Three Men and a Baby, all bolstered by Tom Selleck's facial foliage.
"Manning secured the second Super Bowl triumph of his legendary career in his fourth appearance in the biggest game of all, bolstering the case for him to move up the list of the sport's greatest quarterbacks.
The studio production is an exercise in maximalism, harps and horns and talking drums and clarinets and strings and saxophone all bolstering Mayfield's plea for constancy and sending his message skywards.
With "Gloss Drop" the band's current lineup — Mr. Stanier, Dave Konopka on guitar and bass, and Ian Williams on guitar and keyboards, all bolstered by electronic looping gizmos — has made the songs even more brawny and crammed them with extra layers and effects.
