Word: weakened
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...director and producer demurred, saying the changes would "undermine the strength of the original material, weaken the characters and lessen the integrity of the picture itself." Executives at Carolco and Tri-Star Pictures likewise took a strong stand against what could be a Hollywood nightmare: the vetting of entertainment by special-interest groups. "Censorship by street action will not be tolerated," they said. Queer Nation members replied that they are tired of Hollywood's "censorship" of their lives. Said one gay leader: "Hollywood has once again decided to sacrifice the lives of gay men and lesbians in order to make...
Conservatives can weaken the arguments of the Left by presenting a well-reasoned position, defending it to the best of their ability, and logically dissecting their opposition. It is only in this manner that the orthodoxy of "political correctness" will fall. Only then will we be able to bid farewell to the intellectual McCarthyism of the extreme Left and welcome reason and rational arguments to everyday campus discourse...
...also understand an aversion to quota systems and reverse discrimination. In fact, such aversion has prompted the Supreme Court to weaken many affirmative action laws. That is why it is incumbent on employers to hire in the Spirit of affirmative action--a spirit which rejects reverse discrimination, but encourages an extra effort in finding qualified minorities. If Harvard students refuse to take the lead in such cases, inequality will persist beyond a resident tutor post...
...Right should also realize the not-so-obvious political costs of opposing gay rights. We risk alienating the more conservative, yet more tolerant, generation of younger voters who vote Republican in greater numbers since Ronald Reagan. I also suspect that religiously inspired tirades against tolerance of gays weaken our case against abortion, for they make us seem like Bible-thumping absolutists on a witch hunt. Which is wrong, because there's a big distinction between the two issues. Thanks to groups like AALARM, that distinction is being obscured...
...billion kW-h of electricity a year -- about one-sixth the capacity of its more modern counterparts -- and boasts an excellent safety record. However, after decades of absorbing the high- energy neutrons that are released during nuclear reactions, the walls of Yankee Rowe's reactor vessel have begun to weaken. Just how much is not clear. This so-called reactor embrittlement is potentially the most dangerous problem faced by aging atomic plants, because a crack in these walls could expose the highly radioactive reactor core...