Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade rent control has survived in Cambridge through a precarious one man majority on the city council. Four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association--have pledged to maintain the present system, four would like to at least significantly weaken it, and one--former mayor and long-time councilor Alfred E. Vellucci--takes delight in holding the swing vote. He has never dropped his support of rent control, though...
...even in victory. Approval of the sale would enrage Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and perhaps harden him against further conciliation in the Middle East peace process. Disapproval would humiliate Reagan. In addition, it would likely impel the Saudis to buy comparable Nimrod radar planes from Britain and would weaken U.S. influence with the biggest exporter of oil to the West. Whatever the outcome, the debate has already strained U.S.-Saudi relations and diminished Reagan's standing among American Jews...
...fact, the discord is being heard on Capitol Hill. Support for the President's economic programs among once loyal Republicans is beginning to weaken in Congress. "There are a lot of different signals,'' complained Republican Representative Jack Kemp of New York. In the House, Democratic leaders, with the help of Republican defectors, last week pushed through an appropriations bill for social programs to cost $87.3 billion in fiscal 1982, some $4 billion more than Reagan had wanted. Though the bill came within a whisker of matching Reagan's first round of budget slashes...
...rally, Erhard Eppler, is a member of the S.P.D.'s national executive committee and a former member of the Cabinet. Said Schmidt: "The demonstrators are blind to the huge Soviet [arms] buildup. They make no substantial contribution to securing peace on the basis of military balance. Instead, they weaken the West's position and thus indirectly strengthen the East's position...
...says the step should not be taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases in Greece* now he would allow them to remain if Greece could close them at will. Instead of insisting that Greece get out of the European Community, he would now decide the issue...