Word: weaken
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...SIIC, however, has squandered its mandate and has been unable to deliver services and improvements to its constituents. With Sadr now planning to run a slate of candidates there in elections originally scheduled for this October, SIIC fears that the implementation of the Provincial Powers law will only further weaken its hold on the south, especially if a strengthened central government can swoop in and remove inimical SIIC governors. The polls, which will elect legislators as well as governors, cannot be held until the law is passed. Abdul-Medhi's party would benefit from a delay, which would allow local...
...even until April 22, when Pennsylvania holds its primary. And if the race is still undecided come May, the Clinton campaign will likely start petitioning the DNC to reconsider its decision to strip Michigan and Florida of its delegates. The result: a messy Democratic nomination battle that might weaken the party's eventual nominee by the time summer rolls around...
...dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth, has since led to six FDA-approved anticancer drugs that weaken tumors by blocking their blood supply. "The idea was met with skepticism and ridicule back then, but he doggedly persisted in proving his ideas," says Li. "He lived long enough to see his idea transformed into new treatments for colon cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer and multiple myeloma...
Environmentalists harbor no illusions about the Bush Administration. From a 2001 decision to weaken regulations on arsenic in drinking water to its antagonistic performance at last week's U.N. climate change talks in Bali, the White House has consistently opposed green goals. But Wednesday's move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denying California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles was an unpleasant surprise, even by Bush standards. The announcement, made by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, temporarily torpedoes state efforts led by California to drastically reduce CO2 emissions from...
...precisely because of its political impact, the NIE finding has prompted fury on the part of some in Washington, who see it as an inappropriate political intervention by the intelligence community that will weaken the U.S. hand in pressing for tougher action against Tehran. The report "empowers the Iranians and weakens everybody else," says one Pentagon official who asked to remain anonymous. "I think it is nauseating...