Word: weaken
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...overt Islamist doctrine that got its predecessors in trouble. Instead, it has built a record based on reforming Turkish democratic and economic institutions to fit E.U. standards. The ostensible aim has been to boost Turkish prosperity and to bring the nation into Europe. A side effect has been to weaken the role of the military in Turkey's political life and to strengthen religious and minority rights. The result: a de facto challenge to the secular establishment that has dominated Turkish society since the country's foundation...
...molten metal, adding a new 1-mm-thick layer of chrome or nickel to the head. Each time a cylinder goes through remanufacturing, a milling machine shaves a fraction of a millimeter off the cylinder's head to remove pitting. After a few shaves, however, a head can weaken. The extra layer applied by the flame spray rebuilds the cylinder head's tolerance so it can be milled two or three more times in the future...
...Today's decision should weaken that charge, but Mark Tushnet, a professor at Harvard Law School, says these issues may be the next legal battleground for school diversity. "School systems are going to try to achieve these (diversity) goals," he explains, "and they'll use proxies, and it will be litigated." And that means the Supreme Court will have yet another school integration case on its hands before we really know what schools can do to achieve "true racial equality...
...least 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The Senate Tuesday is expected to vote again on that provision - considered essential by environmental groups and most Democrats. Also this week, the Senate will vote on an amendment sponsored by Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that would weaken the fuel efficiency language in the bill. The current measure would require all vehicles to achieve 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Levin's alternative would give cars until 2022 to reach 36 miles per gallon, and light trucks (including SUVs, the only automobile category American companies still dominate) until...
...Afro-American Studies Visiting Committee met twice, sparking controversy for its recommendation to change the status of Afro-American Studies. This prompted Ewart Guinier, the department’s first chair, to argue that then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Henry Rosovsky was trying to weaken the department by refusing tenure to Isaac and by insisting that only joint appointees (that is, professors who were not solely tied to the Afro-American Studies department) receive tenure...