Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statesman as experienced as Schmidt. Said former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week: "Helmut Schmidt is the only Western leader at the moment who has experience, a policy and imagination. He will leave a very serious gap." Still, Schmidt's departure should not weaken the bonds between London and Bonn. Though Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed good personal relations, Britain's Conservative Party is ideologically closer to West Germany's Christian Democrats. The opposite will be true for France. During his summer holidays, President Francois Mitterrand is said to have been...
...stick fortress that crumbles every time you realize that the whole game comes down to psyching up for a given morning in October. Still you obediently attack the arguments Stanley provides for you. You root out faulty linkage between evidence and conclusion. Indeed, which information if true will most weaken the author's discussion? What is the, most appropriate title for this passage--"Ground Glass: Roughage for the Eighties" or "Startling New Discovery Turns Roughage...
...letter to Reagan, Begin wrote that the President's plan would lead to a radical Palestinian state in the West Bank and therefore to "a Soviet base in the heart of the Middle East" that would "endanger our very existence." Begin chided the President, saying, "A friend does not weaken his friend; an ally does not put his ally in jeopardy...
...regular free-for-all of Watt-inspired controversy. Much of it stemmed from an ill-advised letter the Interior Secretary wrote to Moshe Arens, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., in which Watt argued that "liberals of the [U.S.] Jewish community" who oppose his aggressive oil-development policies "will weaken our ability to be a good friend of Israel." By the end of the week, Watt had gone from saying that he was "proud" of the message to apologizing...
...address to the Sejm. Rakowski claimed that a majority of the workers who had been in contact with the government favored a new structure in which unions would be organized by industries rather than by regions. Solidarity supporters disputed Rakowski's statement, seeing it as an attempt to weaken the independent trade-union movement. Said a 30-year-old skilled worker from Warsaw: "Maybe [Communist] Party members want such unions, but the people want unions of the Solidarity type...