Word: weakenings
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...sideways and up at the end, for a gain of almost 20 points on the day -- but a loss of roughly 70, or 2%, for the week. Fundamentally, stock traders were highly nervous. They were worried that the higher taxes Clinton proposed would, at least in the short run, weaken the economic recovery and corporate profits...
...With the attempts to dismantle or weaken that office that I have seen over this last year and a half, it's becoming increasingly clear what the Harvard Foundation was set up for," Ali says...
...audiences beyond his borders, the aim is to shatter the Gulf War coalition, weaken resolve at the U.N. and transform the U.S. into the bully. "He may sense that the unity of the sanctions regime is starting to fray," says a State Department official. "The Russians have lots of things at home on their minds, and the Europeans have the Balkans." Saddam wants to ease the constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats...
...such a sweeping gesture, Israel wanted to destroy Hamas' infrastructure and leadership and weaken its popular support in the Occupied Territories...
...decide what it should have. An understanding between the Arabs and Iran is in the interest of regional security. We saw the outcome of the Iran-Iraq war: big losses to Iran, Iraq and the gulf states. The Arabs and the Iranians can make effective security arrangements that would weaken or remove the prospects of war. That will bring about a balance of power, and in that event, no harm will be done to the people in the region, or to the interests...