Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delay seemed to signal that Begin would still be open to friendly persuasion. During the Monday-morning gathering in the Prime Minister's offices, one coalition leader after another pleaded with Begin to stay on, arguing that his departure might bring Labor Leader Shimon Peres to power and weaken the Israeli position in Lebanon and the West Bank. Begin sat through the meeting in stone-faced silence and told his political allies that he would let them know his final decision within...
...American movement to weaken apartheid in South Africa by reducing U.S. involvement there is now at one of its strongest positions ever. For the first time, the traditionally divided group has found organizational unity and philosophical focus in a single goal: forcing divestiture of all public and institutionally held funds from corporations that do business in South Africa...
...last May charged that China had "renewed its acts of war against Viet Nam," and blamed the Chinese for border infractions almost identical to those that China had complained about. Viet Nam's Communist Party Secretary General Le Duan said last month that the Chinese goal was "to weaken and eventually annex" Viet...
...Supreme Court often belittle lawyers' arguments and reverse the rulings of their predecessors. But rarely do they say they are sorry. Last week Justice William Rehnquist, writing for a majority of five, offered "apologies to all" for stirring a major legal debate on whether the court should weaken the exclusionary rule's ban on the use of illegally seized evidence in criminal trials. Having riled everyone about the issue, the court decided not to address the question after...
...American movement to weaken apartheid in South Africa by reducing U.S. involvement there is now at one of its strongest positions ever. For the first time, the traditionally divided group has found organizational unity and philosophical focus in a single goal forcing divestiture of all public and institutionally held funds from corporations that do business in South Africa...