Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Clinton due in Moscow at the start of September, the U.S. makes a perfect target for that redirected wrath. "With all the currency woes, it's not a bad time to accuse the West of trying to weaken Russia from without," says Quinn-Judge. "It's his way of softening up Clinton before the summit...
...nervous Arab neighbors and the West with a more moderate foreign policy? And just when Washington has signaled its readiness to improve relations? Political warfare at home may be the explanation. The country's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, controls the missile program, and he has been maneuvering to weaken Khatami ever since voters elected him a year ago on a promise to relax the government's strict Islamic rule...
...begin to lose the youthful vitality most of us at one time thought would be with us for the duration. Besides the obvious changes like hair loss and wrinkling, the lungs' capacity declines; joints start to wear out; bones, especially in postmenopausal women and older men, lose density and weaken; cholesterol levels begin angling upward; the walls of the heart thicken, reducing its ability to pump blood by 25% over the life-span; the eyes' pupils diminish, making it harder to see in dim light. And more serious things can sneak up. Around age 50, polyps in the lower intestine...
...alarmist article titled "Red Poison Tinges Ivy of Harvard," the infamously isolationist Tribune wrote that the hallowed halls of our nation's first university were "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign-born schemes that would weaken the American Republic...
...California Governor's Race. In a political culture that favors government by proposition over experienced leadership, and has strict fundraising rules that weaken candidates who can't drop 10 to 20 million dollars of their own money on their campaign, multimillionaire Democratic gubernatorial candidates Al Checchi and Jane Harman just might succeed in buying their way into the governor's seat...