Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy added that his office will prepare a supplementary budget for council approval when the state figures are disclosed Possibilities for the and increase include funding the vacant position, paying off some of the city's bond debts or initiating an emergency fund to lessen the effect of potential future financial difficulties...
...staffs has consequences for student employment, as well as for professors' research The school has also lost such projects as the 10 year old American Indian program, which offered classes in Indian affairs and gave assistance to native Indian students. The program stopped receiving funding last year. Such cuts "lessen the vitality and diversity" of the school, but they do not threaten its survival, says Blenda Wilson, director of finances at the Ed School...
Predictably, Brezhnev complained that the U.S. proposal was "absolutely one-sided." Yet, amid his anti-American rhetoric, there was a cautious but clear sign that the two superpowers might resume discussions of ways to lessen the global peril wrought by their growing strategic arsenals. For Brezhnev also said of the U.S. offer, "In our opinion, this is a step in the right direction...
...more distressing to College officials the gaps in athletic participation will almost certainly not lessen at all next year...
...fact that many members of the academy acquiesced in the activities of a certain senator from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...