Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against all the evidence, much of the world remains convinced that a conspiracy was responsible for President John Kennedy's murder, and his brother's death did nothing to lessen that fixation...
...Their absence won't lessen the poll's accuracy," Harris explained because the military academies represent only one-tenth of one per cent of the nation's students. "But we wish they could have had a chance to express their opinions," he said...
...more important, the decisions were also the most inequitable possible, since they place the burden of conscription almost solely on those two college groups. It is this inequity that the Harvard Departments--on their own initiative--should work to lessen...
...pointing up what they consider to be the joint economic interest of working class whites and Negroes, Frontlash hopes to limit the extent of white backlash and to lessen its potential impact on the 1968 elections...
With that bit of hedging, the Secretary announced that the Army would start a special school in civil disorders for ranking Guardsmen later this month at Fort Gordon, Ga. To further lessen the chance of Regular Army troops being needed to quell city riots, the Pen tagon has established a unique logistics system that will supply Guard units with specialized riot gear not normally issued through regular channels. Protective body armor, bullhorns, search lights and portable tear gas dispensers have been stockpiled at scattered secret depots throughout the nation. Enough radio sets to equip two infantry divisions have been...