Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran's oil-producing Khuzistan province. He had hoped to become the region's strongman, but he has suffered an ironic reversal. Iran has regained nearly all of Khuzistan, and Iranian guns along the Shatt al Arab are shelling Iraq. Saddam Hussein, who had wanted to weaken Khomeini's Islamic regime, is now in serious danger himself...
Brezhnev charged that the American plan is designed to achieve U.S. military superiority, since it would exclude from negotiations "the strategic arms it is now most intensively developing." By limiting the number of land-based warheads to 2,500 apiece, Reagan's START proposal would weaken the backbone of the Soviet Union's strategic arsenal, the 5,500 warheads it deploys on ICBMS. In return, the U.S., which has only 2,152 warheads on ICBMS, would have to give up half of its 4,928 submarine-based warheads but could proceed with production of the planned MX ballistic...
...them, is preventing interest rates from falling-which they must if there is to be any strong recovery from the recession. If there is no budget, or if Congress passes one with deficit estimates that the financial community finds unacceptable, interest rates will surely stay high. That would delay, weaken or even prevent economic recovery-and provoke exactly the voter outrage that Congress fears...
...times Tocqueville was so eerily prescient that he seemed to have had a private view of the future. His comment about critics of the Federal Government-"It was by promising to weaken it that one won the right to control it"-might have been written about the 1980 election. Reeves' observations have a cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role...
...anything, turned our fears about a Soviet-Nicaraguan alliance into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cut off from all Western aid. Nicaragua had been forced to look East for badly needed international recognition and foreign exchange Under the new State Department plan, the U.S. agreed to end efforts to weaken the Sandinista government, promised to oppose any Bay-of-Pigs-like invasion of angry exiles, and opened up the prospect of renewed trade, investment, and cultural ties between the two nations...