Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PBHA cabinet's recent opposition to Prop 1-2-3, a Cambridge ballot initiative that would weaken the city's system of rent control, is a classic example of the ambiguous political implications of opposing social problems. Ehrenreich defended the move by saying that "the proposition would severely hurt the populations our programs are trying to serve...
What will work? Only policies the West takes for granted but that could weaken Gorbachev's grip on power -- lifting price controls, encouraging more entrepreneurism, decentralizing economic decision making...
Such talk has angered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who spent the day after Thanksgiving with the President at Camp David tutoring him on how to handle the Soviet leader, with whom she has met five times. Concerned that Cheney's announcement will weaken America's hand if the Malta talks take a substantive turn on arms control, Thatcher advised Bush, "Any surprise that you're presented with, you take it away and you consider it very, very carefully...
...recent years, rent control has been the dividing line between the two. CCA candidates back the existing rent control system, while Independents--with the crucial exception of Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--want to weaken...
...suspected criminals before trial. Last week the Justice Department issued new RICO guidelines requiring that prosecutors seek a forfeiture of assets in proportion to the crime rather than try to seize all of a defendant's business interests. The changes come in response to pending congressional legislation that would weaken RICO laws. Still, the man who helped draft the law, Notre Dame Law School professor Robert Blakey, calls the reforms a "clarification and codification of common sense...