Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trade negotiations are under way with the Japanese and the Europeans, and these talks are difficult. French President Pompidou declared last week that he will make no concessions that might weaken France's agricultural strength. "French farmers can count on my interest in them and my obstinacy," he said...
...India. Second is that in a prolonged guerrilla war the moderate leadership of the Awami League would probably give way to more radical political forces, perhaps leading to a Peking-oriented government on India's border. A third factor, of course, is India's unspoken desire to weaken its neighbor by detaching a sizable chunk of its territory...
...behavior of the SDS reprehensible in its own right, but it is essentially irrelevant to the issue. To allow this subject to be fought out at this level is to accept the proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there are 107 courageous members of the academic community who recognize the paramount importance of the substantive issues involved and their implications for public policy and who are demanding that this...
...reduced by an air conditioner that absorbs dust," he says. These are long-range goals, however, and not likely to have an immediate effect. Yet despite their low productivity, service workers' pay will continue to rise in Phase II, which will tend to press up prices and weaken the drive against inflation...
...federal court on the West Coast has ruled that the First Amendment protected Earl Caldwell (a New York Times reporter who has covered the Black Panthers) in his refusal to appear for questioning, since his appearance would weaken his ability to obtain information from this "sensitive" source...