Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the oversupply of professionals has led to New England's economic resurrection. However, he warned that the region's revival could weaken if more attention is not paid to the surplus...
...effective use of force may weaken Khadafy, but we should not rely on the symbolic show of strength to subdue...
...HOUSE OF Representatives joined the Senate last week in caving into the demands of a big lobby with big bucks, passing a National Rifle Association-sponsored bill to drastically weaken gun control. The vote in the House is as much a comment on the way Congress does business as it is a comment on the power...
...unfortunate, I suppose, that a large majority of Harvard-students would rather attend the Harvard-Cornell game than a piccolo concerto, but I can't think of a reasonable solution to this problem. An administrative decision to weaken the Harvard hockey team in order to increase attendance at "weightier" events strikes me as a tad unresponsive to student interests. Harvard does have an obligation to recruit piccolo players and to provide them with adequate facilities and instruction. I assume that it does...
...firm, is that "it takes time for lower oil prices to be reflected in the thousands of products derived from oil." Agrees Paul Christopherson, an analyst for Bear, Stearns, a Wall Street investment firm: "The price of the paraxylene that Celanese uses to make polyester has just begun to weaken. It takes a while for the market to figure out how far down derivative prices must go." For Detroit, the big question is how the oil-price decline will affect car-buying habits. Most industry experts do not expect a sharp shift toward big cars. They believe that the sticker...