Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sophomore standing is not something we want to open up to the world of Harvard," said Assistant Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach. "Requiring four APs will lessen the range of accesibility while being completely in line with advanced standing policies at other colleges...
Although the Senate vote was long expected, the House leadership's original plan was to weather the storm of public protest and let the pay raise take effect. Then, to lessen the political damage, they planned action on a bipartisan package of reforms including an honoraria...
...temporarily last week when a federal judge lifted the travel ban and hundreds of aliens boarded buses for Miami, Houston and Los Angeles. But hundreds more had no money to go anywhere. And the INS is trying in court to reimpose the travel ban. Ironically, its aim is to lessen pressure on other communities such as Miami, where Nicaraguan aliens are camped in a baseball stadium and Mayor Xavier Suarez is pleading for an emergency meeting with the President...
...also won admiration for his skillful management of Washington's vaunted Jewish lobby, even though his most cherished project, the Israeli-built Lavi jet fighter, turned out to be a $1.8 billion failure. From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir put Arens in charge of Israeli-Arab affairs. According to Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and Labor supporter, Arens' primary goal "will be to try to dislodge the United States from...
Philip Morris needs to lessen its dependence on the shrinking tobacco business, which now accounts for 52% of revenues; the Kraft acquisition would bring that level down to 39%. Moreover, Kraft has products like Miracle Whip and Philadelphia Brand cream cheese that have taken up permanent residence in * American refrigerators. Since Kraft products do not compete with those made by Philip Morris' General Foods subsidiary, Philip Morris argues that the merger would pose no antitrust problems...