Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to shoot guns, wear uniforms and march around in the hot sun, there's always the military. (If I had my way, I'd force all Conservative Club members to take this route.) A draft would give a boost to our conventional military forces and lessen our reliance on nuclear arms, something that is generally believed to be a good thing...
Arms-control hard-liners have long insisted that Moscow's reluctance to lower throw weight has been one of the most serious impediments to arms control. Reductions of throw weight would lessen the risk of a dreaded phenomenon known as breakout, the capacity of one side suddenly to increase its offensive force and intimidate the enemy. The issue will become an important factor as the U.S. gradually moves away from a land-based ICBM force made up of multiple-warhead missiles in underground fixed silos (like the Minuteman) and relies more on mobile single-warhead missiles (the proposed Midgetman). Such...
...moral principle that arises from holding stock in companies doing business in South Africa, it is not that we should wash our hands of the matter by simply selling our shares to someone else. Walking away will not shorten the life of apartheid by a single minute or lessen the burdens of a single black South African. For those who truly care about the injustices of apartheid, the right course is to look for positive steps that a university can take to help black South Africans work toward a better future marked by human dignity and political freedom. I intend...
...lessen the chances of clots after the five-hour implant operation, doctors gave Drummond low doses of heparin, an anticoagulant; they also lowered the air pressure that drives the mechanical heart to ensure a gentler blood flow and thus reduce the turbulence that damages red blood cells. Unfortunately, the strategy failed to work. But by week's end Drummond had a human heart and was in critical but stable condition...
...workers are contributing to the economic malaise of the steel mill-dominated area. But to gain the greatest prosperity for their numbers and to send a positive signal to other malcontent workers, the strikers would do best to wait it out. Patient picketing during the next few weeks will lessen the blow to Pittsburgh wages, and also signal to other American steelworkers that good contracts are possible through a little solidarity...