Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future of a democratic Cuba depends on the United States maintaining a position of strength and resisting the temptation to weaken the embargo without similarly drastic concessions, including U.N. monitored elections, from the Castro regime...
...resulting massacre can be measured not only in the doomsday language of disappearing species. The continual hunting of the largest, fittest specimens might, some experts say, eventually weaken their respective common gene pools. At the very least, the criminals are denying a glimpse of the most magnificent specimens to the parks' millions of legal visitors. Longtime Yellowstone ranger Gerald Mernin, who has seen elk carcasses left behind by poachers interested in only their antlers, notes sadly that "people have always hunted in the backcountry. But it takes a different person to do this. This is America's heritage, and they...
...month later, Seshan issued yet another diktat. Ignoring the Rao government's wishes, he decided to stagger balloting in four important northern states over a month, so that 40,000 troops could be deployed in each state to prevent vote rigging. The government then tried to weaken Seshan's power by appointing the two additional election commissioners to outvote his decisions, but the embattled commissioner won a supreme court injunction preventing the action. Next, Congress hit on the strategy of a constitutional amendment. V.C. Shukla, Rao's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, argued that the reason was merely that "we want...
...group, the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), had not used the Endangered Species Act to entangle Pacific Lumber in a web of lawsuits. The web may be fragile; Pacific's executives were crowing over the recent "Sweet Home" decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington that could weaken U.S. rules on the modification or degradation of wildlife habitat...
Director of the Civil Liberties Union ofHarvard Eric D. Miller '96 said admitting menwould strengthen RUS, not weaken its role as asupport for women...