Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a move is improbable: it would irritate voters by reducing their ability to buy foreign goods and add to European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with the paradox of a money so strong that it threatens to weaken the economy...
...would a PCI triumph represent an extension of Soviet domination into Western Europe; in fact, by legitimating diversity within European Communism, it would increase the ability of Eastern European countries to explore alternative socialist models to that of the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, continued American intransigence will only weaken the PCI's ability to maintain its distance from Moscow by undermining its contention that there is a "third way" between East and West. American policy makers should abandon their cold war vision of a monolithic international Communist movement, and resolutely refrain from interfering with Italian moves toward the historic compromise...
...Corn is under no illusion that his task will be easy. Already bills are piling up in Congress that would weaken the original OSHA act. One would essentially exempt from regulation businesses employing 25 or fewer workers. OSHA has tangled with other federal agencies over who has jurisdiction in safety matters involving aircraft, railroads and interstate trucking. And recently in Texas, a federal court ruled that OSHA inspectors cannot enter a workplace without a search warrant...
...candidate best supplied, in quantity at least, with economic advice is, of course, President Ford, who can draw on the whole policymaking apparatus of the Government. Currently, Ford's aides are reporting that the recovery from recession is picking up enough speed to weaken what the Democrats had expected to be one of their strongest issues (see following story). Other candidates, lacking the power of the White House, must get their advice wherever they can find it-generally from economists at universities and research organizations who have time to ponder major public issues...
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing would regard devaluation as a defeat and will hold out as long as he can-with some reason. A drop in a currency's value makes imports more expensive. That aggravates inflation, which tends to weaken the currency still further. The floating-rate system has made adjustments in money values smoother and continuous; it has not made them painless...