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They wanted her to beef up her transcript after she had spent a semester of high school in Italy.

What made construction especially attractive was the potential for lots of overtime, which allowed him to beef up his paychecks.

Microsoft is also trying to beef up discovery and compliance features in Exchange with built-in e-mail archiving.

Wang and his cohorts say China needs to beef up its Navy if it continues buying up natural resources everywhere from Australia to Africa.

governments will also be urged to beef up their laws so as to deny sanctuary to terrorist groups and to put a clamp on their finances.

But with Chinese consumers becoming ever more demanding, she has no alternative but to beef up research and development.

It intends to beef up the graphics abilities of its processors and will one day start selling specialised graphics chips.

As the big writedowns begin, British banks are now starting to beef up the capital that underpins their operations.

Mr Obama has called for member countries to beef up the IMF to help it combat the global downturn.

It would also make banks even less attractive to invest in at a time when policymakers want them to beef up capital.

Eg. They decided to beef up the baseball pitching staff by getting new men.

The data gave NutriSystem legal cover in the face of Federal Trade Commission regulations to beef up the sell.

Some extra money would be found to beef up the reserves into a bigger and more usable force of 30, 000.

Government planners were reported to have asked state oil companies to beef up diesel supplies to meet a seasonal spike in demand.

China's banking regulator is eager to beef up industry-wide capital-adequacy ratios, limiting AgBank's ability to run down capital.

Federal regulators have pushed several banks to beef up the commercial banking experience.

Officials are also working to beef up a fund that facilitates low-cost loans for struggling EU countries.

But despite plans to beef up investment the Chinese have so far been reluctant to commercialise genetically modified food crops.

Eg. Our coaches are going to beef up the quarter backs.

Company officials said Wednesday that the automaker has taken a host of steps to beef up its quality controls since then.

To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.

Banks will also be required to beef up their risk management practices.

The government decided to beef up its air force by buying a number of new fighters.

Another reminder that Facebook wants to beef up its search tools came the same day the FriendFeed deal was announced.

Albanes says that exercise may also ward off cancer and other diseases because it appears to beef up the body's immune system.

If the feds pull their money out in order to beef up security, we'd end up creating more problems than we solve.

If Italy wants to encourage workers to risk moving jobs, it also needs to beef up its skimpy unemployment benefits.

Its CEO is moving to China and plans to beef up his sales force to sell advertising and access to the site for recruiters.

Despite budget constraints, America seems determined to beef up its deployment in the area.

Both papers are adding staff in America to beef up their coverage and tap into a much bigger online-advertising market.

The move is the latest in a series of recent efforts by BMO to beef up its wealth management offering in Asia.

One-third of respondents said they plan to add technology staff and 28% indicated they intend to beef up hiring in customer service.

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The government is well aware of the problem, and has drawn up detailed plans to beef up the pension and health-care systems.

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The firm has also been using acquisitions of small businesses to bring in new ones, as well as to beef up its expertise in certain areas.

Defensively, HP is branching out into networking equipment and has been looking to beef up its software.

Rishi Saha, a former nightclub manager, was brought in to beef up their online presence.

Many people swear by ginger tea to beef up the immune system, help fight colds and cure a sore throat.

If it's the decay of mitochondrial DNA, well, we can do things to beef up these old mitochondria.

Despite such improvements, risk managers are well aware of the need to beef up their qualitative controls too.

BMW has also been bringing in smaller, sportier models to beef up its portfolio.

We need new young players to beef up the team.

The company said it plans to invest $500 million to beef up research and development in China.

When Telstra invested $1 billion to beef up its mobile network three years ago, it used this strategy.

America is paying to beef up security on Kenya's northern border.

And above all, we need to beef up that catalog of iPad-playable shows.

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In China, the government is acting on highly optimistic plans to beef up its gas pipeline grid and connect it to supply links from Russia.

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As the yuan market draws global interest, banks are rushing to beef up their Hong Kong operations.

China to beef up international publications