Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President decried what he termed irresponsible reporting of the Watergate affair by the news media. He said that the publication of "hearsay" has served to damage the reputations of those unjustly accused and to weaken the government's ability to prosecute and convict the guilty...
...Nixon administration does not want to talk from a position of weakness and therefore it has chosen to continue the bombing of the country with the slight hope that it could weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces...
What if the situation continues to deteriorate, however, and there is nothing Nixon can do to weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces? One cannot rule out the possibility of the rebombardment of North Vietnam. One can see this in the fact that although Western sources and American officials in Cambodia have consistently admitted that the Cambodian forces are dling all their fighting and that at most there are several thousand Vietnamese providing nothing more than advice and heavy weapons support (Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 1973; New York Times, March 28 and April 11, 1973; and so on), the Nixon administration...
...model cars. New medical evidence, he says, shows that the levels set three years ago were unreasonably strict. However, Ruckelshaus insists that the White House put no pressure on him during the current debate, and believes that the year's delay in imposing the full standards will weaken the force of the industry's arguments with motorists, Congressmen and judges...
...have been subjected to some terrible blows and we haven't defended ourselves well," Beer warned the Faculty. He went on to say that the reform amendments, introduced by William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, would "weaken our defenses...