The reports, which added detail to an already worrisome economic picture, were issued less than 24 hours after Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, and his colleagues unexpectedly cut the interest rate on overnight loans between banks by half a percentage point to bolster the economy.
This "architecture of pain," as psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan says in another context altogether, was my model for a long while, a model that I am trying to reconstruct today, with ample allowance for punctuated lacerations and weak points meant to bolster part of my psychic suppleness.
Washington's main wish at this point was to bolster their spirit by some sort of action.
"We put out a 67-point plan to bolster our military and to defeat ISIS, and to go after the ideology of radical Islamic jihad overseas, and how to address homegrown jihadists," he said.
The central bank has cut the discount rate by one and a half percentage points since August to bolster liquidity in credit markets.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite rose about 3.8percentt, or 58.05 points, to 1,587, bolstered by Microsoft, Google and Intel.
Rogers says that Hezbollah fighters, fighting in uniform alongside Assad's forces, indicate that outside forces (Iran proxies, being the salient point) are working to "bolster the regime" and that this is "dangerous".
Each side points to specific races to bolster its argument.
"You need to discriminate!" To bolster his point, he points to what he calls the quiet but influential role that Royal Dutch/Shell played in South Africa's peaceful end to apartheid.
