Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of the latest Moynihan flap was undoubtedly to weaken his position within the State Department and at the U.N., but to strengthen once again his personal position with the public...
Kissinger indicated that in order to "normalize" diplomatic relations with Peking, the U.S. may eventually pull its troops and the U.S. embassy out of Taiwan, replacing the embassy with a liaison mission. But Ford hardly wanted to make any compromises with Communist China last week that might further weaken his position with Republican conservatives. It was clear enough well before the trip, moreover, that the deteriorating health of Mao and Premier Chou En-lai precluded any serious dealings on the touchy subject of Taiwan. This awaits the successors to Mao and Chou and, as Ford and Kissinger may have reflected...
...failure to provide adequate rehearsal facilities. The Music Department should devote more of its resources to the practice of the art it is named for, by expanding its program in performance to meet the demand. Harvard need not provide financial support for its musical groups, and direct subsidization might weaken the healthy diversity that now exists in musical life here. But Harvard must end its niggardly, hostile policy of charging them for the use of its facilities...
...decree reaffirmed Paul's ban on conclave voting by cardinals who have reached age 80. But otherwise it was a strategic victory for stand patters, who feared that any participation by the bishops would weaken the power of the College of Cardinals and the Vatican Curia. Another papal move: the assistants who previously accompanied the cardinals into the conclave will henceforth be excluded. However traditionalist, the Pope's decree struck one modern note. Two technicians must check the conclave quarters for "instruments of whatsoever kind for recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." In other words...
...emotionally and sexually dependent upon men, and to keep men competitive and hostile toward each other. For the people who rule this country, defending traditional sex roles is not joking matter. Male-defined sex roles keep women down within the family and divide workers against each other--conditions which weaken the ability of the working class to control its own destiny. Women's resistance to sexism, especially the post-1965 feminist movement, thus strengthens those of us who seek to build socialist democracy in America. And surely, the feminist movement has been crucial to the rise of the mass...