Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unidentified mid-level National Security Agency employee has successfully challenged this policy. He won the right to keep his job as a technical analyst despite his homosexuality, but only after agreeing to lessen the danger of blackmail by disclosing his sexual preference to his family (mother, sisters and brothers). Franklin Kameny, a member of the Washington, D.C., Commission on Human Rights and a gay activist, calls the decision "a major breakthrough...
...long, its charts and graphs unending, and its language often turgid. ButEnergy and Security is also a very important book, one that wisely prescribes largely peaceful strategies for averting another all-too-likely oil crisis. If you'd like to know what the U.S. should be doing to lessen the frightening possibility of an oil war, then you may find Energy and Security worth reading. Too bad Ronald Reagan...
...Justice Department intervention in busing cases--intervention that has been crucial in many instances--would certainly lessen the chances of desegregating existing systems and of continuing desegregation in other cities. But perhaps even worse is the symbolic import, for the busing controversy seems only the prelude to a deluge of legislation threatening our government's relatively few programs to deal with racism...
Ruckelshaus, currently an environmental adviser to President-elect Ronald Reagan, told a crowd of 100 at the Kennedy School that Reagan's failure to discuss environmental issues adequately during the campaign will lessen his ability to improve the Clean Air Act, which comes up for amendment next year...
...already-reduced spending levels, some may doubt the claims of 2 1/2 proponents that only "fat" will be cut from city government should the referendum pass. Cambridge taxes about 5 per cent of assessed values of city property--hence it will have to cut its collections in half. To lessen the shock, "2 1/2" proponents beneficently allow for a gradual phase-in--the city will only have to melt away 15 per cent of its fiscal cellulite a year until it reaches the magic level. So figure inflation prances along at 10 per cent next year; coupled with...