Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unsafe at Any Speed. It is an arresting, though one-sided, lawyer's brief that accuses Detroit of just about everything except starting the Vietnamese war. The manufacturers deserve some knocks for arrogance and a laissez-faire attitude toward safety, but Nader and other recent anti-auto authors weaken their case by overstating it. The traffic tragedy is a compound of many factors: bad roads, loose licensing, lax police, lenient judges, drinking and-not least-auto construction. Says National Safety Council President Howard Pyle: "There is no single offender. They are all interlocked...
Next year bitter primary fights will almost certainly weaken the party's chances in contests for attorney general, senator, and governor. Not since the legendary strong-man leadership of the late Governor Paul Dever has the party been spared from ruinous infighting...
Memories of Paris. Defending bombing raids against the North, Taylor testified that a major object is to weaken "the will of the enemy leadership," added that "the warning message is getting through." Said he: "I for one know from experience that no one derives any enjoyment from receiving incoming shells and bombs day after...
...only advantage of having Congressmen run for four-year terms with the President might be that this would polarize opinion for or against his program. But instead of strengthening Congress, which President Johnson claims is his goal, this would weaken it and leave only a third of the Senate running in each off-year election to test the people's sentiments. And there is no reason to believe that a four-year term would make Congress more responsive to a need for social change; indeed it would only freeze in office for a longer period what might again...
...revolution in aggression." The U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, he said, is based on the fact that "around the world are countries whose independence rests in large measure on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force in Viet Nam would weaken that confidence. We would have to fight in one land, and then we'd have to fight in another-or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists. And we do not intend to abandon Asia to conquest...