Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current revival of stock prices and trading volume-there is still a pervasive worry over the future of the stock market as a capital-raising mechanism. The Big Board's Needham fears that negotiated commissions and a central market could decrease incentive to belong to the N.Y.S.E. and weaken the nation's oldest and most important stock exchange. He worries also that the changes will tend to increase institutional dominance of the market, making it increasingly inhospitable to individuals. They will continue doing what they have been doing for some time: investing elsewhere-in commodities or funds that...
...tried without success to weaken Wyoming's proposed air pollution law with variances he believed necessary to the "economic and social development of the state." He suggested that oil and gas wells should not be covered by a law prohibiting discharge of waste into navigable streams. He supported industrial exploitation of Wyoming's energy resources, favoring immediate oil shale development and helping to triple the amount of state land leased for coal mining...
...this time of economic insecurity, the University is certainly in no position to weaken its financial base. But it has already recognized that the base of contributions must be widened. This is precisely the time to appeal to alumnae/I for funds, not on the basis of class identity, but on the basis of loyalty to the college or, if necessary, to an academic or institutional subset thereof. In his Letter to the Faculty. Dean Rosovsky bemoans the fact that the diversity of the students body, the size of the University, and its location in an urban environment have a "fragmenting...
...Administration fears that last week's setbacks will weaken future U.S. diplomatic efforts. China, which Ford plans to visit this fall, appears to be growing somewhat skeptical of American power and resolve; when Kissinger privately asked the Chinese for assistance in getting Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia, the Chinese did not even reply. On the other hand, the Soviets appear eager to move ahead with detente and nuclear-arms negotiations. Ford plans to hold a summit in Washington with Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev this summer...
...Jordan. The Soviets will automatically go along with such a resolution, but Washington cannot. Kissinger's stated position has long been that the U.S. will not talk to Arafat or the P.L.O. until the Palestinian guerrilla groups end terrorist acts and demonstrate responsibility. That attitude is likely to weaken U.S. relations with moderate Arabs at Geneva, and will generate added recriminations against Israel for getting Washington into such...