Word: weakened
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...Washington Endangered-Species Reversal Blocking a change made during his predecessor's final days in office, President Obama called for a review of that Interior Department order, which wildlife experts say could weaken protections for endangered species. The rule had waived a requirement that federal agencies consult ecologists before approving building projects...
...around it. As a result, the clock is ambivalently camouflaged as part of the café’s stock décor. However, the tension that such an arrangement creates between its own passivity and the installation’s demand for intellectual attention does not necessarily weaken the impact of the exhibition.As a work concerned with space and intuitive sensitivity, the installation succeeds in seamlessly fusing its fictional space within the real physical space of the gallery. Such subtlety may very well be a sacrifice worth making to carry out the art’s intent...
...small-fry - like the smuggler's driver, the document forger or the guy who prepared the box lunches for the crews of the go-fast boats. Once in U.S. custody, many high-level smugglers do cop pleas and then turn on one another, allowing prosecutors to weaken their organizations, says Josh Levine, former chief of the international narcotics trafficking unit of the U.S. Attorney's office for the southern district of New York. Prosecutors also note that little guys often help build cases against the capos. But Perez estimates that half of all extradited Colombians have no business bobbing through...
...capitals that France's plans to strengthen Europe's own defense can help the NATO alliance rather than undermine it. "France needs to put an end to questions in the minds of certain allies about whether its desire to construct a European defense identity is in part designed to weaken NATO," Tertrais says. "Total reintegration into NATO would not only alleviate these suspicions, but also bring France's evolution even with other European Union nation members in NATO. Since it was created in 1992, one important aspect of European evolution has been the increasing convergence of the E.U. and NATO...
Thanks to blanket media coverage and the long campaign, we know an awful lot about the personal lives of President Obama and his family. Could that weaken the power of an office that relies, to some degree, on mystique...