Word: weakenings
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Environmental studies could be construed to include almost every discipline, Norris says, which may weaken professors' work by placing them apart from their colleagues in an all-inclusive department...
...addition, unfavorable findings would greatly weaken the Medical School's negotiating stance for an increase it is seeking in its indirect cost rate. This scenario would be the most costly for the University, which now hopes to work a deal promising more than $1 in overhead for each dollar received in grant monies...
...mere 2,000 assumes that damage on secondary roads has been as severe as on the main highway to Baghdad. Maybe, but no proof has been given. In general, however, there is no reason to doubt the picture of an awesome battering that eventually must seriously weaken Saddam's ability to withstand a ground attack...
Saddam is already dangling various ideas for a so-called compromise before European and Arab visitors. The aim is to divide and weaken the coalition against him. At best, in his view, allies terrified of war would bring irresistible pressure on Bush to delay war or, if it begins, agree to a quick cease-fire and negotiations for a compromise settlement. In Saddam's view, forcing or luring the U.S. into negotiating would in itself be a victory of sorts; it would amount, he thinks, to Washington's recognition of his paramount role in the Middle East...
...diverse immigrants, but the huge numbers of Soviet Jews may bring fundamental change to the national character. For the first time since the mid-1960s, European Jews will again outnumber Oriental Jews, reinforcing the nation's Western identity. Because most Soviet Jews are non-observant, they will considerably weaken the influence of the ultra-orthodox parties, which enjoy a disproportionate share of political power. That may explain why Peretz, an ultra-orthodox rabbi, claims that as many as 35% of the Soviet immigrants are not Jewish -- a claim refuted by most experts...