Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some U.S. and British analysts believe that in attacking Brezhnev, some Politburo members are only trying to weaken Chernenko, who is evidently positioning himself for the top job. Though many Western experts still consider Kirilenko, the senior member of the Politburo after Brezhnev, more likely to take over following Brezhnev's resignation or death, Kirilenko has been absent from recent state functions. But whether Kirilenko or Chernenko wins out, either one of the septuagenarians could end up serving only as a caretaker while such "younger" Politburo members as Viktor Grishin, 67, and Grigori Romanov, 59, vie for position...
...message from lobbyists, witnesses and sympathetic congressional spokesmen was the same: that the massive cuts in educational funding Reagan has proposed will "mortgage the future" of the nation at a time when--according to the President's own analysis--the United States can ill afford to weaken its intellectual and technological base...
...million from the bank in 1981 as a protest against the consortium loan. The divestiture program has been effective in spotlighting the singularly oppressive nature of the South African regime and the key role played by American business in making apartheid economically viable. A decision by Harvard to weaken its ethical investment policy would be a signal t the South African government, and to transnational banks, that gilding a simple business loan to the South African government with humanitarian verbiage would be sufficient to legitimize direct subsidies to the state architects of apartheid. We should not overlook the domestic consequences...
...Kissinger plan" (that is, succeed) or the "Sisco plan" (that is, fail). But when I went through the Israeli disengagement scheme in great detail, the mood grew frosty. The plan, said General Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Egypt's Chief of Staff, was designed to improve Israel's security and weaken Egypt's. Sadat listened sphinxlike. Then he asked me to leave the others and go with him into the study...
...create allies. This statement is as evasive as it is obvious. Arms sales alone are not intended to create allies, but rather to strengthen lies already existing between the U.S. and its allies. All states have legitimate security requirements; to deny politically friendly states arms is merely to weaken their international position, which in turn reduces American influence abroad...