Word: emboldens
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...YEAR AGO, AS AMERICANS watched the confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, pundits offered two visions of the future. One camp, using words like crusading, empowering and galvanizing, hailed the sexual-harassment hearings as a nationwide consciousness-raising session. They predicted that Hill's brave performance would both embolden other women to come forward with grievances and promote greater sensitivity in the workplace. The other camp warned that the spectacle of 14 white male Senators grilling a young black woman with sometimes rude, often embarrassing, rarely knowledgeable questions would deter other women from lodging harassment complaints. Pointing to polls...
...only taking a new look at some long-standing contingency plans. They give two principal reasons. Though their analysis is strongly disputed, they believe Saddam's hold on power is weakening; rumors of a new American plot to bring him down just might throw him off balance and embolden his opponents to try something. Such rumors also might encourage some allies who Washington fears might soon be ready to do business with Saddam -- notably Turkey -- to reconsider and hang tough in keeping the Iraqi regime isolated. Says an Administration official: "It's a comedy of errors. Those stories...
...Iraq; nor do the gulf states, which have their own problems with Shi'ite restiveness. Supporting the Kurds would create a stewpot of problems as well. Turkey, an important constituent in the anti-Saddam team and a NATO member, fears that any gains made by Iraq's Kurds would embolden Turkey's own 8 million-member Kurdish minority, which has fought a bloody secessionist campaign for seven years. Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran also have large Kurdish communities that they prefer to see quiescent...
...resort to force. What seemed to be shaping up instead was a tug-of-war with the President over Congress's constitutional right to declare war. For months Bush had avoided seeking congressional approval of his gulf policies, fearing that a narrow victory -- or worse, a defeat -- would further embolden Saddam Hussein. But when it became apparent that the returning lawmakers were determined to open an early debate over his Persian Gulf policies, Bush relented. By early last week the White House was circulating a resolution seeking congressional approval for the use of military force...
When communism began to self-destruct last year, TV journalists did more than just report the phenomenon -- they participated in it. The presence of foreign cameramen seemed to embolden the demonstrators. Once the Chinese authorities decided to shed blood, they literally pulled the plug on television coverage. Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu also kept the press out of his country while he slaughtered its citizens. Not until TV aired footage of his lifeless body were many Rumanians convinced that the despot had really been executed...