Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus on public policy initiatives that would benefit Blacks is because the Democratic party regularly receives 85 to 95 percent of the Black vote. But conservative politicians do not merely ignore Blacks--they steadily attack the progress Blacks have made. For example, Presidents Reagan and Bush sought to weaken civil rights statutes, dissolve the Civil Rights Commission and cut programs targeted for the inner cities...
Even renting out depository space at another institution and putting all displaced volumes in that depository would be preferable to complete inaccessibility. The current plan would weaken a library system that is the envy of the world. We owe it to our students and others who rely on this resource to keep it fully accessible...
...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...
Finally, the enactment of term limits would weaken special interest groups and return power to the hands of the American people. With their terms limited by law, members of Congress would be more inclined to do what is right rather than pander to the special interest groups...
Unfortunately, randomization is not a comprehensive solution to the problem of self-segregation. Instead, randomization will only serve to weaken house life and anger students without creating an integrated campus...