Word: lessening
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...hearten him. He has received the endorsement of the state's labor organizations in a move that was more anti-Kohler than it was pro-Proxmire. He can also count on the return to the fold of Democrats who filled out Republican primary ballots, voted for Kohler to lessen the chance of a conservative Republican's winning. Kohler forces, who had expected to win in a walk, were running scared. "Every vote for Boyle," warned a Kohler lieutenant ominously, "is a vote for Proxmire...
...elsewhere, as would be the office of the International Commission. Harvard's withdrawal would not only stifle Harvard activity and leadership in the International Commission, but would end all hopes of bringing Harvard out of apathy, would deprive Harvard students of the benefits of NSA membership, and it would lessen the power of an organization which is, in itself, worthy of support...
...pipeline with 60 million tons annual capacity, to run from Iraq to Iskenderuri, Turkey. Another idea is for an internationalized Middle East pipeline system administered by all transit countries, with oil companies simply paying for services rendered. By letting the Arab nations run the lines, the oil companies might lessen the dangers of sabotage...
...publicly supported college, fear of offending the sensibilities of the local community is apt to lessen student freedom of expression more than at a private institution. Legislative control of funds and tax exemptions exert considerable silent pressure on the complete exercise of academic freedom. At Brooklyn College, a New York City-supported school, this issue has blown up into a public controversy over alleged censorship of the campus literary magazine, Landscapes...
...Commission, to make major networks grant all parties polling ten percent of the vote in the previous Presidential election equal and adequate free air time during the campaign would help alleviate the obvious discrepancies between the two parties' public relations activities. There is in this plan no attempt to lessen the potential of the mass media for good or evil. There is, however, the hope that by partially equalizing the air time utilized during a campaign, no party will be able to saturate the public mind with its "line...