Word: weaker
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Said Rivlin of Congress's frustrating battle to pare spending: "The whole struggle has been terribly discouraging. Congress's tax-increase and spending-cut actions have been considerable, but at the same time, the recovery has been weaker than had been assumed in the spring, and as a result, revenues have tended to be lower. As a consequence, the best that can be said is that the deficit has leveled off from an increase that otherwise would have happened...
...endorsement of even one woman for high state office suggests the great progress of the politically weaker sex, both in the Commonwealth and the nation. Until the 1970s, the few female politicians who sought office often ran only as legacies for spouses who were constitutionally ineligible to succeed themselves, or newly dead. But more and more women are running in their own right, and millions more are participating in other ways...
...focal point of any conflict between the armies of the two great power blocs would lie. It would be in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, largely stationed in what was known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced the considerably weaker NATO forces ... It was in the GDR that the Warsaw Pact was even now staging maneuvers of impressive size, so large as to arouse at first strong suspicion in the West, and then to confirm, that this was really mobilization .. . The maneuvers had been notified to other powers ... Some smaller though...
After qualifying fourth in the preliminary rounds, the Ashland, Ky., native had a lackluster performance in the finals before a standing-room crowd at the IU natatorium and fell to sixth overall. In the springboard competition. Watson's weaker event. He placed 12th...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin may have made a tragic diplomatic error in Lebanon: support in the United States, the most crucial of Israel's allies, has never been weaker. But the history of the Middle East since 1948 shows Israel constantly striving for peace, only to be rebuffed time and again by the Arabs...