Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither institution will drop any courses to avoid overlap with those offered at the other, both presidents emphasized. They predicted that the program would serve to strengthen weaker areas of their schools when exposed to stronger departments at the other...
...fighting hard to kill these measures. In Chicago last week, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops authorized a new "educational campaign" against the proposed laws, with a first-year budget of $50,000. In New York, an abortion bill was defeated last month. In Colorado, where Catholic influence is weaker, such a law was passed...
This year's American League raises the obstacles for rationally predicting a pennant finish to an annual high. Every team in the junior, and perenially weaker, loop, has so many holes to fill that of the five teams equally justified to finish second, none should be able to win. That is why the overwhelming consensus leans toward Baltimore: the Orioles won last year, so memory over-rides the rebellion of reason at the thought of their triumphing...
...April 11 special election for Powell's House seat was concerned, his absence hardly mattered. Even against the well-known James Meredith, he was the prohibitive favorite. Then suddenly last week, Meredith, under intense pressure from Negro leaders, pulled out of the race, and the competition became weaker. Powell's new Republican opponent is Mrs. Lucille Pickett Williams, 50, an attractive grandmother who has no illusions about her chances...
...reason was ironic: many of the party's kingmakers, who had planned to oust her, had themselves been voted out of Parliament and were thus in a weaker position than Indira, who won her own constituency in Uttar Pradesh by a 3-to-1 margin. Most of the surviving leaders, especially the powerful state chiefs, rallied to Indira-though hardly for the best of reasons. They prefer a relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister...