Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatize such fears, the nation's leading banks last week raised their prime lending rate to 20.5%, up 3½ percentage points in one month. Moreover, last week's report that the gross national product had surged 8.4% in the first quarter seemed to weaken the case for the economic stimulus that the Administration argues a tax cut would bring...
...could not last. He was, after all, using mirrors- often platooning eight mediocre players, for instance-to create the illusion of an infield. Certainly Oakland's starting pitchers were impressive, setting a modern record by completing 94 games in 1980. But, it was argued, the strong arms would weaken with overwork. In any event, the league was wise to the wiles of Billyball, as Martin's harumscarum tactics became known. Surely no catcher would fall for the double steal in 1981 after being burned so often last year, and of course pitchers were now alert for the attempted...
...occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power in France should not vote...
...these tough standards, as well as the national problem of a high attrition rate among female swimmers in college, that have combined to deplete and weaken Randy's women's team--11 of last year's 22-member squad chose to leave Florida or to quit swimming altogether this season...
...some of the proposed budget cuts are self-defeating. New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn voices a widely shared fear that states and cities will raise taxes to make up for some of the proposed reductions in federal aid for education, health, transit and job-training programs. That would weaken some of the stimulus to the economy provided by cuts in federal income taxes...