Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's role in the latest round of fighting. The essential questions were posed by Charles Percy, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "At what point does [Israel's] pre-emptive strategy undo all our efforts toward peace? At what point does the preemptive strategy weaken Israel's political and diplomatic position in the world...
...move on Taiwan: the mainland is too tied down on its southern borders with the Vietnamese and on its northern with the Soviets to launch such an adventure, which would surely rupture its ties with the U.S. Peking's goal, in the judgment of China-watchers, is to weaken Taiwan diplomatically, politically and militarily until it will no longer feel strong enough to rebuff overtures for negotiations...
...that will strengthen or weaken the nation's defenses for years to come. That excuse, however, will not last beyond fiscal 1982. By the time it presents the 1983 budget to Congress next January, the Ad ministration will have to sort out its ideas on what kind of Army, Navy and Air Force (and Rapid Deployment Force) the nation needs for the rest of the 1980s, what weapons they will wield, what kind of strategic doctrine they will be asked to carry out, what sort of manpower policy will fill the ranks, and what assistance the defense production industry needs...
...business?especially those industries, such as electronics and computers, that are expanding rapidly in a generally lackluster economy. This would both weaken the nation's global competitive position and cause inflationary shortages. Says Thurow: "You will see the wages for engineers go through the roof in Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Certain types of equipment will get very expensive." The resulting pressure, Thurow argues, could be contained only by a rate of productivity growth greater than the U.S. has experienced in 16 years (productivity actually declined in 1980). Or it would have to be paid...
...lymphocytes, making the space travelers more vulnerable to infections. (The cosmonauts found themselves spending more and more time scrubbing the spacecraft to curtail bacterial growth.) Such vital substances as sodium, potassium and calcium salts are lost from the body fluids. The muscles, no longer required to work against gravity, weaken dangerously, and at the same time bones begin to decalcify. Not until the cosmonauts step back on earth do they really experience the consequences of these changes. Then they find themselves overwhelemed by gravity. Every movement becomes a monumental labor, and their bodies seem to weigh...