Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...
Many students objected to the plan when officials announced it. Abraham Hughes, a Cornell sophomore who works as a financial aid peer counselor, said this week. He added that they believed it would discriminate against minorities and students from low-in-come families whose unequal opportunities might lessen their desirability...
Some of Reagan's advisers acknowledge, grudgingly, that what they call "real" arms control is as indispensable to national security as improvements in defense programs, since arms control can set rules of the road for both sides and thus lessen the chances of a collision. But they have had as much difficulty, and demonstrated as much ambivalence, in their quest for "real" arms control as in their ludicrously meandering search for an MX basing plan. The SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) process contributed modestly, marginally, but still significantly to the avoidance of nuclear war. Reagan has in effect suspended that...
...president's plan will lessen the money Cambridge gets from the federal government, city councilor David Sullivan said, "I'm disheartened to say the least at the notion of dismantling the federal government's role," he said, adding that the city's community development grants have been cut 15 per cent this year, and that funding for the neighborhood health centers has just been cut, putting the centers' futures in jeopardy...
...planners also point out that people can lessen the bite of the Internal Revenue Service by making deductible expenditures originally planned for 1982 in the remaining weeks of 1981. This enables the taxpayer to get more value for his deductions before the tax rates drop. Most accountants, for example, advise their clients to prepay local property and state taxes and medical expenses. Stephen Sandler, the owner of a collection agency in Phoenix, bought a new company car early. Said he: "It was a choice of whether to pay the money to Uncle Sam or put it back into the corporation...