catalyze

“This transaction strengthens our financial position and catalyzes a significant resource opportunity we’ve been building in our oil and gas business for the last decade,” Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub said in a statement.

A number of factors catalyzed the city’s financial issues, which exploded into public view during the budget process earlier this year.

Since then, the growing ties among researchers have catalyzed more connections.

It was, after all, the fear of a Nazi bomb that first catalyzed the Manhattan Project that would create the American bombs.

“This gift expands and builds upon one of the world’s leading agricultural research programs and will catalyze discovery and innovation,” he said.