Word: lessening
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September 11 has not forced the United States to lessen its support to Israel. In fact, it has been increased - and with fewer questions. Likewise the United States is less inclined to protest human rights violations in the Middle East...
...much a political strategy as a military campaign. U.S. commanders in Iraq repeatedly stressed that American troops were simply buying time for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to do two things: buck up Iraqi security forces and take steps toward reconciliation that would, everyone hoped, lessen violence. The surge was designed to carve out a quiet space in which compromise rather than violence would rule. On this front, there is not much good news. Al-Maliki does not appear to need - or even want - to lead any hard negotiations. That's largely because the three major...
...rest of Iraq, the hope in Qaim is that the American burden will lessen as Iraqi security forces take the lead. In Baghdad and other centers of sectarian violence, where the security forces are riddled with militiamen and where Shi'ites patrol hostile Sunni neighborhoods, that hope is more like a fantasy. But in al Qaim, foreign jihadists not too long ago antagonized local Sunni tribal leaders; and now the Americans have used that local history to win cooperation from the same maligned tribes, recruiting personnel for the Iraqi army and police. "It's in our best interest to train...
...chose to fund the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and Lamont Café with his own discretionary fund. While we hope Faust will continue to take bold steps such as these in helping undergraduates, we hope that a more long-term, structural change can be made to lessen the need for temporary allocations of the discretionary budget...
...head to the Dudley Co-Op). That is, if you haven’t had an epileptic seizure from the “mood lights.” If you’re in Winthrop, just think of it as an annex of Eliot. This will lessen your confusion and increase your self-esteem. You can even attend their stein clubs on Thursdays. And if you’re housed in Pfoho-Currier-Cabot? Good luck figuring out which is which. We know we’ve been out there once, but don’t really remember the details...