ammeliorate

The security situation here is tenuous - there are a lot of restrictions here on our movement - and as such, we lack regular contact with the Afghan community - which is self-defeating - more cultural exchange would do a great deal to ammeliorate the security situation here (spoken like a true former peace corps volunteer).

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While we use regulation to ammeliorate the conditions of slaughterhouse workers or, anyway, we used to, we do not use regulation to ammeliorate the conditions of slave labor.

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