Word: weakened
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Against the NCAA's financial offer, the University has been balancing its uncertainty about the legality of the program, together with a reluctance to join one of the biggest business ventures in collegiate sport. At the same time, a Harvard-NCAA agreement on the television issue would weaken anti-NCAA movements of discontented colleges. The NCAA has faced increased resistance from the Ivy and Big Ten schools recently over the TV issue...
Late last night Abrams expressed the view that the Air Force's announced policy of denying commissions to many cadets will seriously weaken its future reserve officers training program in colleges throughout the country. "Students in the future may hesitate to join a college organization which has in the past broken moral obligations. As members of the AFROTC we are vitally interested in the future of the Air Force and we sincerely hope that its policy makers will reconsider and realize that its best interest would be served in honoring its obligations despite any inconveniences which may be involved...
...failing to meet its obligations the Air Force would weaken the attraction of the AFROTC program, and probably lose much of the return from the expensive instruction given the three thousand. The Air Force could utilize the men profitably by sending them to specialty schools that would make them valuable as Reserve officers. With a year of combat instruction, for example, these men could become officers capable of training traditionally helpless Air Force ground crews in the art of defensive warfare...
...when no single European state can make serious claim to the position of a major power, the United States must count on the combined effectiveness of a united Europe to wield a balance of power over Russia. Any factor that serves to undermine European unity can therefore seriously weaken the strength of the Western block as a whole...
...Vermont Senator's speech has been considered an important Administration attempt to weaken McCarthy and promote Republican Party unity. President Eisenhower yesterday thanked Flanders for emphasizing in his address the "great danger" of "personal aggrandizement" and a split in G.O.P. ranks...