Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American government deeply devoted to American democracy could have refrained from fighting its much weaker opponents by illegal and undemocratic methods; but then an American government deeply devoted to American democracy would not have been supporting the dictatorship of General Thieu. Only a government terrified by radical social change, anywhere--the very sort of government likely to exaggerate the strength and the radicalism of its domestic opposition--could continue to fight for government by tiger cage...
...Italians know how to hit, they are weaker in other areas of the game. Park said yesterday from a summer camp in Mars, Pa. that the "national team had good power, but they were weak on fundamentals...
...plan, a standard negative income tax, provided a weaker work incentive than the demogrant, since it would reduce benefits faster as income rose. And it would do much less for the middle class. To some economists, who were concerned about poverty but less with redistribution per se, this was a positive advantage of the new plan. Heather Ross, the economist who had prepared it, took this view...
...ties with the Pusey years remain, but they grow weaker and weaker. While Bok stays home to mind the store, Pusey's right arm goes to Washington to make government respectable again. It may be an impossible task at this point. For the moment at least, Bok will stick to his cautious program aimed at making Harvard respectable...
...worst is over for the Commander in Chief." It was not a perception generally shared in Washington. By a vote of 63 to 19, the Senate voted to cut off all funds for the continued bombing of Cambodia (see THE WORLD). The House, which had already passed a weaker prohibition against the bombing, passed three health bills opposed by the Administration...