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Harris said that cutting tariffs vis-a-vle the Common Market might weaken its "basic glue--the common tariff wall--and could worsen, rather than improve, our favorable balance of trade...
Racial discrimination or unequal shelter facilities for different economic or ethnic groups could worsen inter-group conflicts in the nation, the conference report charged...
...discovery of his illness comes very close to crushing Watanabe, the old man. Death so appalls him that to escape the thought of it he must drink, although he realizes alcohol will only worsen his condition. He tries to tell his son and daughter-in-law what is wrong with him, but they completely misunderstand his first few remarks and prevent him from explaining his predicament. His son's aloofness is a severe blow; for Watanabe, widowed soon after his marriage, has devoted his life...
...this reason, and because I do not consider it a luxury item, that in my opinion ability to pay should not be the criterion used in assigning rooms. No room-drawing system can provide better facilities where they do not exist, but neither, may I add, does it worsen the physical situation. I am troubled by the implication in your editorial that those students whose families' financial situation is less favorable are thereby better prepared psychologically to write their these in double rooms...
...remain in the Commonwealth turns on whether one feels there is any hope there. Everyone condemns apartheid, and certainly no one at the conference desires to support the tragic status quo in that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing the ties between the English-speaking group and the rest...