Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, by a 317-to-24 vote in the House, a $90 million program to develop high-speed intercity rail service. The program, already approved in a similar form by the Senate, aims to lessen highway congestion by improving commuter service with trains that will go up to 150 miles an hour, initially on the Washington-New York-Boston...
...give some measure of protection to the average citizen and his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age. This law, too, represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. It is a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions...
...failures involved only 0.06% of the nation's banks, said that "banking is probably one of the most racketeer-free industries in the country." All very true -but that did not take the sting out of the daily headlines about banking scandals, and it is unlikely to lessen the embarrassment of the banking community as the weeks of investigation wear...
...more federal judges may be emboldened to back the trustbusters' complaints in the lower courts. The Justice Department is now arguing suits against Milwaukee and Chicago bank mergers, is expected to file another against a San Francisco bank. It is also watching other mergers that it feels might lessen competition among banks, which it ranks as "perhaps more vital than in any other area...
...Lyndon Johnson-took the unusual step of recommending that the union postpone its May 1 strike deadline. Though Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald rejected the idea as "premature and prejudicial," many businessmen figured there would indeed be a delay-and that the extension for additional negotiations might well lessen chances of a strike...