Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though we had to do something to break the deadlock." Walter Sullivan said. He denied that a deal had been struck among the four Independents, who repeatedly sought to weaken the anti-conversion ordinance, and Vellucci, who usually supports the CCA on housing issues but who stated consistently since the November election that he was a candidate for mayor...
While last week's talks moved toward deadlock, the domestic auto industry continued to weaken. Sales for the middle ten days in January fell 5.2%, compared with last year's already poor results. GM's sales declined 7%, in part because it had promised to cut prices if an agreement was reached. The automakers' production plans for this month indicate that it may be the worst February for sales since 1961. Financially troubled Chrysler is reportedly already trying to sell its profitable tank division for about $300 million to General Dynamics...
...avoid inequities between states and in adequate social aid in most. The aid disparities among states that the President's peculiar brand of federalism would promote would only entice the nation's needy to congregate where welfare benefits are highest. And his decentralization of environmental Regulations would only weaken the national government's potency where it is needed most...
...shameful; that a man who couldn't feed himself and his family was hardly a man at all. "Under our political system," Hoover had said in 1930, "Government is not, nor should it be, a general employer of labor." Federal aid to the unemployed, Hoover said, would weaken their "moral fiber." Hopkins disagreed. "People don't eat in the long run, Senator," he said to one legislator, "they eat every...
...purposes-to produce precisely the opposite of the intended result. In large part, campaign-spending reform laws were passed to decrease the influence of big donors. The court then cut down most of those limits and left intact other curbs on candidates and their parties. That has helped to weaken political party structures; by comparison, the big donor is stronger than ever...