Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing else the Rambouillet meeting is an important symbol of world leaders' willingness at least to consult each other on policy and avoid conflicts that might weaken the global economy. The gathering might also produce a useful reaffirmation by the government heads that they will resist growing pressure in every country for import quotas and other self-defeating protectionist measures...
California's Bank of America, criticizing Ford, called default "an unacceptable alternative" that would weaken the economy's recovery and further inflate the federal deficit by forcing the Government to make emergency loans and increase welfare payments. But Wriston called Ford's program "highly responsible" and predicted that "the effects of default are containable" and would have "minimal" impact on major New York banks, which hold a total of $2 billion in city and Big Mac debt. According to an estimate by Wall Street analysts, Chairman David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan is worst off, holding...
While most Catholic spokesmen have rallied behind the Quinlans, at least one Protestant, surprisingly, has come out against any court ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion...
...enlightened founding fathers were still united in their belief that human beings were accountable in this life or in one to come. The decline of the popular belief in hell, among other things, has done much to weaken this belief today. The founders and shapers developed a process for nurturing moral concern. Perhaps because they had to, they listened to each other. They reasoned and debated. Today banners, bumper stickers and megaphones often supplant argument. "Abortion is murder." "A woman's body is hers to do with what she wants." These are slogans and conclusions, not hypotheses, shouted...
Meyer said the effect of the city's default could be to weaken these institutions' capacity to provide loans necessary for economic growth throughout the country...