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The rationale for the job is bolstering each individual state's revenue, not the national pooled aggregrate.
In late 1999, Washington provided some support for talks among the leaders of exile Afghan groups, including the ousted Rome-based King Zahir Shah and Hamid Karzai, about bolstering anti-Taliban forces inside Afghanistan and linking the RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 125 Northern Alliance with Pashtun groups.
When White House aides and congressional Democrats reflexively expressed confidence in Clinton's denials, their assurances were portrayed as bolstering Clinton's case.
The WP sees the move as 1) image bolstering for Clinton, and 2) "a useful way to put public pressure on the [tobacco] firms."
In 1566, they wrested Chios from the Genoese, bolstering their hold on the eastern Aegean Islands, but the Cyclades remained in Venetian hands for another generation or more — Tinos was the last to fall in 1715.