Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing the rope, bicycle, textile, brass and copper industries, all hard hit by foreign competition, they huddled at a Washington hotel and agreed to apply some skillful pressure to weaken the chamber's free-trade policy...
Members of the Department of Buildings and Grounds have been "watching" the crumbling since the Mem Hall tower burned in 1956, Fred B. Jackson of the Department said yesterday. A leak in the waterproof flashing caused water to weaken the mortar holding the bricks...
Next winter's team should be very strong up through the 147-lb. class because of several upcoming freshmen and the experienced men who will return, Watkins predicted last night. The graduation of Bob Foster and Joe Noble, however, may weaken the heavier classes, though Ted Robbins and Bob Wynne should help...
...prep schools or very good public schools. But the risk of admitting students of uncertain preparation but promising potential should certainly continue to be taken. On the one hand predictions of future success based on previous preparation and performance is not particularly reliable; moreover such a policy would weaken the healthy effects of geographical distribution...
...Prime Minister's trip has also been valuable to Britain domestically. Khrushchev's efforts to annoy and embarrass Macmillan, and so to weaken his position in the impending British elections by depicting the Moscow trip as a failure, only served to set off Macmillan's courtesy and firmness, and actually seem to have helped him at home. While Macmillan demonstrated his good faith by pushing for increases in trade and cultural exchanges, he still remained firm in rejecting a pact which would close United States air bases in England...