Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam decided to take advantage of the deepening split in the council, moving to weaken the inspection team by barring Americans from it. But he "misread the importance of the split," said a senior U.N. official. Though divided on whether to continue sanctions, the Security Council members weren't about to let Saddam dictate who could be on their inspection team. France, Russia and China joined the U.S. in a Security Council statement threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it expelled the Americans. "Saddam Hussein has shot himself in the foot again," said State Department spokesman James Rubin...
Does beta-carotene cause cancer? Will vitamin B6 damage the nerves? Can calcium weaken the kidneys? These were some of the unsettling questions raised by a story on the front page of the New York Times last week that had vitamin takers across the U.S. wondering if they--or their children--were swallowing too much of a good thing...
...Weaken family ties? But aren't they the glory of our daily existence, one of life's great spiritual rewards? Guess again. In Bowen's view, the emotions that govern family life are often tools of self-interest. Sometimes this is obvious--for example, in an outburst of anger or a fit of jealousy. But even such "good" emotions as affection can be instruments of control wielded out of insecurity. (Ever notice how your social failures outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness...
...therapist Murray Bowen. A person with high differentiation of self is secure--not desperate for signals of approval and affection from others, and thus not easily swayed by social pressure. Bowen considered such autonomy healthy and encouraged people to carry it into their family lives. He wanted them to weaken their emotional ties to kin, including spouses and children...
...physician aid-in-dying the most moral, compassionate and reasonable option to relieve suffering among the terminally ill? Would this new right provide a greater degree of control and freedom to a dying individual, or would it only weaken our society's respect for life? Can alternative approaches to dying allow one to experience a good death? More fundamentally, do our lives ultimately belong to us or to the larger community in which we are deeply rooted...