Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't seem to matter that economists across the political spectrum agree that drastic steps to reduce the deficit will, ultimately, weaken the economy. Liberal economists say that spending cuts and increased taxes in the present state of the economy would only exacerbate recessionary tendencies. Robert Eisner, president-elect of the American Economic Association, says that budget cutting would be a "mindless throwback to the economics of Herbert Hoover...
...President chose him to head the Federal Reserve, voiced a somewhat perverse but effective argument: in effect, the only way to keep taxes low was to agree to raise them a bit. If there was no budget compromise with Congress, he said, the financial markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming one through over the President's veto or by winning the 1988 election...
...Bork was composing his withdrawal speech that afternoon, Simpson called. "I've been thinking it over," the Senator said. "You ought to stand up for the principle involved if you think you can do it." Bork's resolve began to weaken. Meanwhile, his family debated the decision in a law clerks' lounge across the hall. Soon after he finished talking to Simpson, they entered his chambers. "Something's bothering us," Charles Bork told his father. "You can't quit. To quit now would be to a great degree to concede the validity of the attack against...
Barrages of mass-produced sounds and images targeted to weaken consumer resistance and sway opinion have made the new literary generation knowing observers of style and class. Most share affluent backgrounds and a sense of being entitled to the best brand names, higher education, sex, drugs and psychotherapy. Their casual sophistication is worn two sizes too big. The best characters in their fiction are invariably white, bright and dangerous to know, like the autobiographical narrator of McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and his sidekick Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching...
Another University health official said that academic pressures could also explain the increase in student sickness. Dr. Randolph Catlin, Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard, noted that several scientific studies have shown that stress can weaken immune responses, which in turn makes people more susceptable to a cold. Still, the doctor said he would not attribute the recent wave of colds on any stress he had noticed at Harvard...