Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contradictory speeches the night before. Then Wednesday morning, in his red speechifying vest, he spent one hour and four minutes saying no. Argued Byrd: "The primary focus of concern for the countries in the region remains the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the Soviet threat." The AWACS sale would only worsen that conflict, said Byrd, because it would "transfer the mantle of a U.S. client state" to the Saudis, and thus compel them to take a hard line to prove their independence...
...middle-class Blacks have sometimes served to exacerbate the disappoinements and frustrations of the estimated 35 percent of Black Americans who are currently below the poverty line. The Black poor now see many of their brethren "making it" while their own sad conditions persist of in many cases worsen. One example of the deterioration in the condition of the Black poor is a frightening rise in female-headed households. While in the early '60s 23 er cent of Black families were headed by a female, today that figure has skyrocketed to over 40 per cent. Since female-headed ouseholds have...
...solved these problems yet, and it is a safe bet Ronald Reagan will do little but worsen them. Indeed, there seems a tremendous chance that Fallows' prescriptions for change in the military make atrocities like Vietnam easier. Central to his book is the hope that the "military spirit" can be restored; he calls it the "most important task in defense." There must be, he writes, "a bond of respect between the military and rest of society," achieved mainly through the draft. But any society that thinks too much of its military may be heading towards militarism, with all its attendant...
...youth movement.' It is really many movements. It is peace marchers in Hamburg, antinuke protesters in Brokdorf, squatters in West Berlin. But what they share in common is anxiety over what will happen to them in the future. Suddenly we are being told that economic conditions will worsen, that there are no longer enough resources, that it may not be possible for us to live in peace...
...administration's international credo. But to in his first major speech on the economy and in his advisers' subsequent specific additions to it, the president has placed his faith in an untested and highly speculative course of action that could very well worsen the economic "mess" he wants so desperately to clean...