Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, subs have entered the game in the closing minutes, and Gomez feels that this policy can only weaken the team. "In the future substitutions will be made for technical reasons," Munro said. "Perhaps we will try to confuse the other team or maybe give the starting squad a chance to observe the opposition before going back...
...securities business and puts pressure on the exchanges to reduce their minimum commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission has nourished the fourth market by urging institutions to trade stocks at the lowest possible cost. But stock exchange officials complain that off-the-board trading in listed securities tends to weaken the exchanges' auction market, on which all traders rely for prices...
...Nasser began to weaken last week, his family and special friends were summoned to his bedside. Heikal and Sadat were there, together with Defense Minister Mohammed Fawzi and two old companions from the 1952 revolutionary days of the Free Officers Movement, Hussein Shafei and Ali Sabry. After Nasser died, it fell to Sadat as Acting President to break the news to the nation. He waited three hours, while a red alert was flashed to put army units on guard against a possible Israeli attack. Then a weeping Sadat went on television to say: "The U.A.R., the Arab nation and humanity...
...Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, Resnais evolved an elliptical style of editing that included streams of consciousness, unconsciousness and dreams, all edited so tightly that the audience had to shift rapidly between tenses and dimensions. This technique made his films intellectual teasers, but it also tended to weaken the rather fragile narrative line. The scenario of Je T'Aime has been almost completely overwhelmed. It was supposed to be a kind of comic-strip fantasy about an unsuccessful suicide who is used by some dubious men of science as an experimental time traveler. Consumed by melancholy and guilt...
...bill would weaken the legal deterrence to unconstitutional police work. A judge could not disclose any illegally obtained material unless the defendant convinced him that the revelation would be "in the interest of justice." Indeed, if the specific crime for which a defendant was being tried took place five years after any general evidence was improperly obtained, leads derived from that evidence could not be challenged...