Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith's Rhodesia were to fall, South Africa's strategic position would seriously worsen. In return for possibly 70,000 more whites, it would have to share its northern border with a hostile black state. Further the success of sanctions against Rhodesia would make their use against South Africa more likely...
Unfortunately, though, the Constitution does not clearly empower Congress to handle presidential disability by statute alone. Indeed, Bayh backers argue that such a statute might worsen the next disability crisis because it would be open to constitutional challenge. By contrast, an amendment becomes part of the Constitution, and Congress would have the right to pass later disability legislation if necessary...
...economic ills. On the contrary, Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted on doctrinaire legislation such as renationalization of steel, hinted at new, incentive-stifling corporate and capital-gains taxes. Convinced that Britain's financial position could only worsen, international bankers scrambled to unload their sterling holdings...
...Athens, Papandreou seemed both angered and disgusted with Makarios, but he neverthelesss rebuffed Inönü's offer of direct negotiation, which, he said, "would only produce false solutions that would worsen the situation and lead to disaster." If the efforts at U.N. mediation should fail, Papandreou added, the Cyprus problem should go to the General Assembly-exactly what Makarios wants, because he hopes that the Assembly will back his stand that repression of the Turkish Cypriots is an internal affair...
Once again, the nonpermanent members of the Council came to the rescue. They produced a new resolution requiring all member states to "refrain from any action or threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this...