Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industry opponents to a flat-rate system charge that higher electricity rates for large businesses would weaken the already depressed Massachusetts economy and eliminate thousands of jobs...
...dinner table of their white brick home in Chevy Chase, Md., Charles Mathias and his wife Ann were talking about an unhappy afternoon that he had just spent in the Senate. The President had moved to weaken the food stamp program, which Mathias strongly supported. His wife, who is not easily rattled, closed her fist on the table and said: "How much longer can we go on like this? Wouldn't it be better if we changed parties...
Defeat and humiliation in Lebanon will be a staggering blow for the Palestinians. It will weaken P.L.O. arguments for a place at any peace conference between the Arabs and Israel. Beyond that, when the shooting finally fades in Lebanon, the Palestinians may be forced as part of the peace to find a new base. Whether or not this would curb the P.L.O.'s troublemaking potential is unclear. But the Palestinians could, as they did after Black September, vent their rage and frustration by reverting to full-scale "revolutionary terrorism," meaning the Entebbe skyjack on a much broader basis...
...dispatches from London on the American situation, backed up by reports from a French agent in Philadelphia, argued that French aid could be decisive for the colonial cause-and yet not force a war between France and Britain. "It is the English, Sire, whom you need to humiliate and weaken," Beaumarchais wrote to Louis last winter, "if you do not wish to be humiliated and weakened yourself on every occasion." Without French help, he warned, the Americans might give up their fight and join with the British to take away France's rich sugar islands in the West Indies...
...recently, a grim joke among international moneymen was that British bankers were preparing a special Bicentennial gift for the U.S.: a pound worth $ 1.776. Two weeks ago, the laughter grew thin; sterling fell to $1.705, down from $2.02 as recently as March. The pound's collapse threatened to weaken the international monetary system and cast a shadow over the industrial world's quickening recovery. Then last week a spate of good news buoyed the pound. Its value climbed to $1.771 at week's end, raising hopes that the worst of the sterling crisis might be over...