Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unraveled key alliances. It has dissipated much of the good will gamed by Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative, an economic and trade development plan that is currently being challenged in Congress by special-interest groups. A House Ways and Means Subcommittee, for example, voted last week to lessen trade preferences for shoes and rum. The Administration position on the Falklands has also undercut its controversial goal of convincing Latin America that the most dangerous threat to the stability of the hemisphere is the kind of subversion, promoted by the Soviets and their surrogates, that currently threatens the government...
...city manager's budget statement listed a series of possible uses for the funds if the city receives them. One such option is setting up a "stabilization fund" to lessen the impact of future budget cuts, such as the possible loss of approximately $8 million in Prop 2 1/2 cuts if voters do not override the measure again next year...
...said no, but last week it severely tightened credit restrictions on American businessmen and tourists traveling to Cuba. Some foreign policy experts fear that the Administration is missing an opportunity: Cuba is known to be in deep economic trouble, and Castro may be seriously looking for a way to lessen his country's total dependence on Soviet...
Such safeguards lessen the likelihood of jet lag's serious effects, even without the most formidable medical weapon: on-ground rest. Says the ex-general: "This job is easier than fighting a battle." How long the Secretary can go on with his pace without a greater toll, however, is a matter still very much airborne...
While some Americans are resorting to illegal means to lessen the tax bite, many others are beginning to search through the tax code in hopes of uncovering some new deduction. Tax collectors have no troubles with that. "Take everything that's due you," advises Bob Ruttenberg, an IRS official in Boston. "We only want our fair share...