Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said 1-2-3, which would weaken rent control by allowing some tenants in rent-controlled apartments to buy their homes, would drive poorer tenants out of the city by giving landlords an incentive to rent only to the wealthy...
...supporting actors Masterson and Dillon weaken the film. In Immediate Family, they complement main storylines with humor and charm...
Smith and other abortion opponents said the vote demonstrated they can overcome future efforts to weaken the prohibition on most Medicaid abortions, adding that it shows the political ground has not shifted in favor of abortion rights, as some political strategists argue...
...until Congress passed a federal child-care plan. Sixteen years later, Schroeder's children are grown, and the U.S. still lags far behind most other industrialized nations in national family policy. House Democrats have taken a big -- and expensive -- step toward catching up by defeating White House efforts to weaken legislation to create a national child-care program...
...August press release, White said the plan had been presented to him as a "fait accompli" by O'Malley and another Regent. He called it "personally and professionally objectionable and intolerable" that he was not consulted on the decision, which educators say would severely weaken the Baltimore campus...