Word: weakenings
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Like a strand of tightly woven twine, the spinal cord is actually made up of thousands of nerve fibers that are strongest and most effective when they work as an intact unit. Even the slightest fraying of the cord can interrupt or weaken signals traveling from the brain to the muscles, in some cases resulting in paralysis. To bridge these gaps in the tapestry of nerve cells, you have to either coax existing neurons to grow across the neural divide or introduce new cells to replace the damaged ones. Often the two strategies feed off each other: the growth...
Summers countered that the administration had advocated more rigorous oversight and had fought congressional Republicans’ attempts to weaken the government’s power through deregulation...
Harvard Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise has previously said he opposed a reduction below 35 football players per class. He said that a cut like the one just approved could significantly weaken Ivy junior varsity football programs, which provide underclass football players with a place to hone their skills...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, who once brilliantly debated Keyes on the issue of church-state separation, is perceived as embracing the former presidential candidate on national security issues, Jews lose credibility with their traditional allies—gays, abortion rights supporters, the left. When they kowtow to Bush, they weaken attempts to reach out to unions, to black and Hispanic voters, to university professors who must be persuaded that Israel is not the South Africa of the new millenium. Why do we always fall back on the line that Israel is the one democracy in the Middle East? It?...
...this day. The refugees say they are being forced from their birthplaces by the Vietnamese?a people ethnically, linguistically and culturally distinct from the Montagnards. Vietnamese from the north have systematically moved onto and taken Montagnard land, and the government has repressed the highlanders' religion in an attempt to weaken and perhaps eradicate them...