Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music died as the years went on, and SNCC itself began to weaken. The visible enemy grew harder to see, as the sharpest edges of race-hate were blunted and as the cops and registrars grew savvy. The movement, including SNCC, found it hard to shift from protest focused on consensus issues like voting rights to protest focused on issues with less support, like the economic problems that were emerging as intractable plagues in Black America. Without a visible enemy and without the fire borrowed from the southern campuses at the start of the sit-in period, SNCC workers began...
...portion of the American strategic deterrent-1,052 Minuteman and Titan II missiles in underground silos-might soon be susceptible to a surprise first strike by the Soviet Union's own increasingly accurate, destructive and numerous land-based warheads. Such a pre-emptive blow, if successful, would seriously weaken the ability of the U.S. to retaliate with iCBMs against Soviet military targets. The worry is this: faced with the awful choice of responding with an attack against Soviet cities-thereby inviting a Soviet "second strike" against U.S. cities-an American President might decide to capitulate instead. Whether a Soviet...
Washington is wondering how long Stockman can keep "it." Reagan's trust in his lightning rod could weaken if it is struck too often. In the budget battles that lie ahead, what could damage Stockman most is his determination to be more of a Reaganite than Ronald Reagan...
...reserves and private stocks of oil-managed internationally, for the first time-would ease the threat of Middle East embargoes by allowing allies to draw down stocks. A "disruption tariff," imposed the moment imports seemed threatened, would steel U.S. consumers and muffle and embargo. Diversifying Western imports would also weaken its impact. Standby lines of credit for importing nations would ease inflation's increase in the aftermath of a cut-off. And coordinated international demand restraint and stockpile sharing, run by an effective international agency, would spur consumer solidarity against OPEC and equalize Western suffering...
...they seek détente with the West in the form of trade, arms control agreements and cordial political atmosphere-as long as these goals can be achieved without compromising what the Soviets see as their security interests. Second, they are always looking for-and frequently finding-ways to weaken and distract Moscow's main adversaries, the U.S. and China. And third, once they have decided that the Soviet Union's vital interests are threatened, they exert force massively, without compromise or vacillation...