Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First to weaken in the face of this stalemate was the government. Late last week, despite all of Harold Macmillan's sermons against a new round of wage increases, the government-owned national railways bought off the threatening railway workers with a 5% increase, though the cost of living has gone up only 3% since their 7% wage increase last year. A few minutes later came the announcement that able, fast-rising Minister of Labor Iain Macleod, 43, had persuaded the shipyard employers and union leaders to agree to face-to-face negotiation of their differences...
Although the Hungarian uprising attracted far more sympathy and publicity in the United States than did similar events in Poland, the Polish transition has more immediate concern for America than the Hungarian failure. The United States cannot afford to lose any opportunity to weaken the ties between the Kremlin and a satellite, and the present situation in Poland presents just such an opportunity...
Even so, state courts are hesitant to take actions which might tend to weaken the power of local school committees, or to set themselves up as "super school committees." Shaplin is by no means certain that his group will win its case, but he has a strong conviction that the school committees have too much power. At present the Dean has begun a survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served...
...embattled Cambridge School Committee voted last night not to rescind the 17 protested appointments made on Dec. 11, and passed new motions which may weaken the taxpayers' law suit against the committee. The board's actions were vigorously protested by School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the School of Education, who has opposed the appointments from the beginning...
...convincing evidence than I have had, up to this time, that the Secretary of State has evolved policies regarding the Middle East which are in the interest of our national welfare. I regard the policies which he has been following as harmful to our interests, as being calculated to weaken the influence of the free world in the Middle East, disastrous to the NATO organization, and as damaging to our friendship with Great Britain and France." Dulles, he said, should prepare a State Department White Paper reviewing "his conduct of our foreign relations in the Middle East, at least since...