Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...string of 5,600 Sinclair gas stations in eleven Eastern states and the District of Columbia. The deal hangs on Justice Department approval of a pending merger of Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield, which now may well pick up speed. One Justice hang-up has been that the merger would lessen competition in the East, where both companies have gas-station chains...
...Better designs for nuclear reactors to lessen the danger of accidental exposure to radiation...
Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the Harvard Bubble will boast a synthetic Tartan running surface designed to lessen the muscle strain most indoor runners experience from long periods of running on conventional board surfaces...
...Those who use marijuana to excess, it is known, run the risk of lessened intellectual activity. Pot partisans point out that those who use alcohol to excess not only lessen intellectual activity but cause damage to the brain, liver and heart as well. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report contents itself with pointing out that social productivity is reduced in those areas of Asia, Africa and South America where heavy use of marijuana is common...
...Hashish, a form of marijuana with an extremely high concentration of the hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...