Word: weaker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After blowing several matches against weaker Tufts, Boston College and Smith teams, the squad finished the season with strong play in the Ivy League Tournament...
...bedeviling relationship of foreign creditors with America the Debtor has shown up strongly in recent weeks. Foreign governments have intervened repeatedly to prevent the U.S. dollar from sinking even faster than it has so far. A weaker dollar would make American exports cheaper and imports more expensive -- and that would make the U.S. better able to repay its debts. But America's major creditors, who are also its major trading partners, are not wild about a further rapid slide in the dollar's value: such a precipitate decline would erode the trade surpluses that made them creditors in the first...
Lyndon Johnson, who reached political maturity under Roosevelt, was very much attuned to constitutional battles. The supreme legislator of this century as a Senator, L.B.J. noticeably changed his tack when he got in the White House. "I'm not going to leave this job weaker than when I came in," he told his counsel, Harry McPherson. But for all his muscle flexing, Johnson chose to retire rather than run for re-election in the teeth of the Viet Nam protests. Six years later, Nixon would resign, swept from power by public disapproval and Congress's instigation of impeachment proceedings...
...Court; Baker's group wants to choose a nonconfrontational conservative who would arouse less than die-hard opposition from liberals in the Democratic- controlled Senate. "Even if we make a quality selection, it could well be a tough go," says a Baker aide. Liberal Senators, however, are in a weaker position to stall Reagan's choice than they would have been if Powell had delayed his resignation: the 19 months until Reagan's successor is sworn in would be a long time for the court to operate with only eight Justices...
...most frustrated leader of all may be Ronald Reagan, who is hobbled by the Iranscam tangle and the increasing welter of problems arising from the U.S.'s foreign and domestic indebtedness. Not only the President but also the U.S. itself are widely seen as weaker abroad, a perception that is reflected in a declining American ability to lead the way on international economic issues. That fact may reflect one of the major challenges of the summit: How can allies long accustomed to U.S. leadership find solutions to their economic problems at a time when the U.S. is becoming, at best...