Word: weakens
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...carried the virus in their cells for several years and have so far remained healthy. Dr. Jay Levy, an AIDS researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, cites the possible role of other infections, use of drugs, poor nutrition, stress and lack of sleep, any of which may weaken the immune system. "If the person's immune system is not compromised by such events," he says, "I believe they will be able to fight off the virus and not develop the disease...
...Colorado Springs, Colo, Reagan said the choice in the Senate race there is between a supporter of a strong defense or "a man who would vote to weaken America and raise your taxes...
...when the executive branch starts to treat the Court as just another political institution and its Justices as mere politicians, we're in for a real power grab. Don't be fooled. The Reagan-Meese-Reynolds crew is trying to weaken the judiciary and to limit the scope of judicial review not because it objects to judicial review in principle, but because judicial review stands in the way of its agenda...
Several scholars here and elsewhere saidHarvard's commitment to its traditional standardsthreatens to weaken the History Department asscholars in the image of Handlin and Schlesingerbecome more scarce...
...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...