Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the regular town meetings, the established politicians in colonial Washington have begun to take notice of Adams-Morgan and even obsequiously seek it out. The people, bless them, have not been conned. At each meeting, the attitude of doing it ourselves seems to strengthen and fear of 'downtown' to weaken. (At a recent ceremony, to count block-by-block votes for an operating council to carry out assembly decisions between meeting, a local judge was scheduled to preside. He was so obviously scornful of the local attitudes and informality that he was asked to leave...
Accountability is essential to our rights. Yet the trend of recent years has been to weaken accountability and to strengthen that elitism which results from reposing decision-making authority in bureaucracies and groups beyond the reach of democratic recall...
...work out a compromise. No agreement could be reached; so the court ruled. Its decision was a sharp, skillfully crafted rebuke to the President's claims of absolute immunity from the judicial process and absolute Executive privilege.* To uphold these positions, said the court, would dangerously strengthen the presidency at the expense of the other branches of Government...
...Middle East fighting tended to strengthen the Administration's case against the Jackson amendment, which is aimed at withholding most-favored-nation trade status from the Soviet Union until it permits the free emigration of its Jewish-as well as other-citizens. The Administration argues that whatever leverage the U.S. has over Russia should be used in major international situations, such as bringing about a Middle East settlement, rather than expended on matters of Soviet domestic policy, no matter how humanitarian that concern. In an address before a seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions...
Necessary Changes. Nevertheless, the 18-member commission urges reform and innovation to strengthen the system. "Survival, with memories of past glories, is not enough of a program for higher education as it approaches the year 2000," says the report. The commission believes that higher education will inevitably become available to all who want it, but that the shift will necessitate changes in the practices of learning institutions, governments and even parents. Specific recommendations range from urging the Federal Government to "take basic responsibility for providing equality of opportunity through financial aid" to telling parents not to press reluctant children...