Word: heightens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credits, as mandated under the new legislation, would lead to reduced corporate spending on plant and equipment and research. At the same time, hikes in capital-gains taxation rates could cause cutbacks in the financing of new business ventures. By hurting investment, Feldstein warned, the tax-reform package might heighten the risk of recession in 1987. Tax reform, he said, "turned out in the end to be a mediocre piece of legislation...
...series of secret meetings, and his best friend, a jovial mechanic with eccentric marketing ideas and a penchant for stories of the underworld. George tells his friend stories of his own life, pretending that he has invented them. These relationships are completely gratuitous to the film's plotline, and heighten your sneaky feeling that Mona Lisa is little more than a star-vehicle for Hoskins...
Inevitably, televising the Senate debate over the bill is bound to heighten public awareness. There is no doubt whatever that the cameras' presence will also change how at least some Senators behave. One old hand, 38-year Veteran Russell Long of Louisiana, immediately took to wearing dark glasses on the floor to shield his eyes from the bright lighting required for TV, removing his shades only when he stood to address his colleagues and the camera. With tongue in cheek, Senator John Glenn of Ohio pledged, "I plan to do nothing different." Then he took out a makeup kit, dabbed...
Attempts to heighten awareness about the statistics have begun recently. Some groups have peppered the campus with posters containing statistics on rape. Honnet is the coordinator of a recently formed committee, the Working Group on Peer Sexual Harassment, that is also trying to increase education on the problem...
...building a new style of government, based on greater compromise. The obstacles would be formidable. Late last week, for instance, after a man hired to hang Socalist party posters was slain, police arrested a man believed to be a sympathizer of the National Front. Such an incident could easily heighten political tensions...