Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancer" has long been regarded as the dirtiest word in the English language. Until the late 1950s, many newspapers and magazines carefully avoided using it and it was whispered about as a dreaded family secret. But banning the word did not eliminate the disease or lessen its effect. It is possible, however, that our semantical escapism did actually thwart medical research into the disease to a high degree...
...continue to win its merger cases." He has reason to think so. In a major suit involving Reynolds Metals Co. and Arrow Brands, Inc., in 1962, the presiding judge declared that the Government has sufficient grounds to break up a merger that merely "has the capacity or potentiality to lessen competition." That case was heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, and the decision was handed down by Warren Earl Burger, the new Chief Justice...
...administration, as well as moderation in all things. In addition, Nixon almost surely recognizes that universities--unlike Southern school districts--do provide services which are immediately useful to the Federal government. Besides hurting education in general and students in particular, cutting off Federal aid to universities would also lessen the flow of expertise from academia to government...
...students would no doubt have preferred at least some continuation of the "new barbarianism" in University Hall to the police action which ended it, Harvard's action--and similar actions on other campuses this spring--have probably helped, at least in the short run, to reassure Congress and to lessen the chances of passage of repressive legislation...
commenting upon the opinion, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci pointed out it meant that, next Sunday afternoon, a police officer could order the rock groups to lessen their noise, and arrest them if they failed to comply...