Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cunningham says that in the battle over Afro-Am at Harvard, the stakes are larger than just the one department. With the Reagan Administration toning down criticism of South Africa, attempts to academically sever the links of Black Americans to Africa are in part a political attempt to weaken the ties Black Americans feel to Black Africa, she added...
...precisely because of the way he straddled the fence between Independents and the CCA over the hottest political issue in the city. Though Vellucci more than anyone is responsible for the city's housing guidelines, he never staked out a clear position on the issue of whether Cambridge should weaken its tough controls against condominium conversion. Those controls protect rent-controlled housing from the open market forces that would transform them into luxury condos...
TIME performed an essential public service with its article about the well-organized effort in Congress to weaken the standards of the Clean Air Act [March 1]. As the principal author of the law, I am delighted that interest in this issue is increasing. If anything, we need to expand the statute to cover new threats to our health and our environment-acid rain and airborne toxic pollutants...
...with certain right-wing governments in Latin America, including Argentina. Some of the money was earmarked for support of groups inside Nicaragua that are opposed to a Sandinista dictatorship. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees were informed late last year of the Administration's covert plan to weaken Nicaragua...
...against the lingering inhibitions of Viet Nam, compounded by Watergate. Every new weapons system had to run a gauntlet of objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest for the ideal. The B70 bomber, the antiballistic missile, the Bl, the MX, the Trident II missile have all been canceled or delayed...