Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitches that the networks callously strew through televised movies. The judge's decision, in fact, seemed to be heading in that direction. "It is true," said Judge Richard L. Wells, "that the effect of the commercial interruptions was to lessen, to decrease, to disturb, to interrupt, and to weaken the mood, effect or continuity and the audience involvement-and therefore some of the artistry of the film." But then, reversing course, Wells found NBC not guilty, and concluded: "The average television viewer is thick-skinned about commercials and tends to disassociate them from what goes before or after...
There is widespread unhappiness about Johnson's "voluntary" restraints on U.S. capital investments overseas and at home. Though their companies abide by them, both Jersey Standard Chairman Michael Haider and Gulf Oil Senior Vice President W. W. Adams have pointed out that the restraints on spending abroad will weaken the country's balance of payments in the future. Haider also urges cuts in the Government's nondefense spending, which, he notes, has widened the balance-of-payments deficit by increasing demand for imports and diverting some potential exports to domestic markets...
Those who oppose the Inner Belt face a dilemma: by preparing for the consequences of the Inner Belt (i.e. stimulating and cooperating in any relocation effort), they implicity weaken their own position by recognizing the Belt as inevitable; and yet, by ignoring these efforts (and encouraging others to do so), they may be compounding the serious social and economic problems that the Belt will cause if the last-ditch opposition fails...
Part of his opposition seems to be a built-in defense mechanism. Jim Hill saw the proposed orgy as a "foot-in-the-door" threat, and feared future administrations would weaken farther until rock was at WHRB to stay. "College stations with a high percentage of rock-tend to be very amateurish," he say with distaste. Amateurish is nothing WHRB wants to be. "I like it [rock]," he says, "but rock on FM would be a travesty. It would bring us new personalities and new talent--if we could fit it in with our image...
...approaches to the problem of God, then, will have their greatest impact within the church community. They may help shore up the faith of many believers and, possibly, weaken that of others. They may also lead to a more realistic, and somewhat more abstract, conception of God. "God will be seen as the order in which life takes on meaning, as being, as the source of creativity," suggests Langdon Gilkey. "The old-fashioned personal God who merely judges, gives grace and speaks to us in prayer, is, after all, a pretty feeble God." Gilkey does not deny the omnipotence...