Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 50 freshmen participated in a workshop given his weaken to encourage academic and extracurricular achievement among minority students...
DIED. Robert J. Kutak, 50, exuberant Omaha lawyer and indefatigable leader for the past five years of the campaign to reform the legal profession's code of ethics; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After a storm of protests over his proposals to weaken the bonds of client-attorney confidentiality, he watered down the new provisions, but his reformed code still faces an uphill fight at the American Bar Association's semiannual meeting this month...
...Prime Minister, there was more at stake than the selection of local legislators. Two of the three states (Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka) have been Gandhi political fiefs for decades, and her party was a clear favorite. Thus last week's defeat will surely weaken Mrs. Gandhi's authority over Congress (I). More important, it could spur internal Indian strife, lending strength to the nation's growing number of ethnic and political separatist movements...
...hardly had 1982's bond market bulls had a chance to tot up their winnings when much of the euphoria that accompanied the rise in bond prices began to fade. Prices have begun to weaken ever so slightly, and interest rates have started to nudge upward. Reason: fear is spreading that inflation, a mortal menace for all fixed-income investments, could resume with a vengeance if the economy comes out of its doldrums. Says Raymond Dalio president of Bridgewater Associates Inc., a Connecticut-based economic and investment consulting firm that was strongly bullish on bonds last winter and spring...
...were a number of oil-exporting nations: Mexico and Nigeria, to name two. Two years ago, the 13-nation OPEC oil cartel gloatingly held the world at ransom for crude oil at prices that eventually exceeded $40 per bbl. But the combination of recession and conservation caused prices to weaken, and by year's end the price of crude had dropped to $30 per bbl. and appeared to be headed even lower. Unbelievable as it would have seemed to most Americans two years earlier, OPEC's survival as a cartel now appears in doubt...