Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to thinking big, the city should also think small. The city's bustling communities are potential sources of good government. Over the years, as city government became more centralized and the Democratic Party structure grew weaker...
...prove that all their products are safe before they are put on the market, and make the Environmental Protection Agency responsible for screening that proof for "unreasonable risk" to human health and the environment. The chemical industry, claiming that such a measure would duplicate existing laws, favors a weaker bill requiring manufacturers to notify the EPA only about products containing compounds that the agency has listed as dangerous; the EPA then would test the products for safety. What will probably pass Congress is a compromise measure: only potentially hazardous chemicals would have to be tested by industry, with...
Stirring Plea. The case for greater stimulation in the Big Three economies is straightforward. These countries, the argument goes, have healthy trade surpluses and are entering a period of recovery while other nations are still mired in recession. The weaker countries could solve their unemployment and inflation problems much more quickly if they could earn more through increased exports of goods and raw materials to the U.S., West Germany and Japan; thus those countries should be willing to stir up their domestic economies through more aggressive fiscal and monetary measures. Not until the weaker countries begin to prosper again through...
Portugal's Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves clung desperately to office last week. Though his grip grew weaker by the hour, he continued to hang on, and rumors swept the country that his moderate opponents were preparing to stage a coup. At week's end, several military units went on alert...
...vicious rate-cutting war has erupted among brokers. On many trades big institutional investors (mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, bank trust departments) are paying commissions 20% to 60% lower than those charged in April. Rate cutting on that scale, if continued, could force some weaker brokerages into bankruptcy or emergency mergers with stronger investment houses...