Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration officials have good reason to be publicly cautious in their prognoses. For one thing, breakthroughs in the past have faded embarrassingly quickly in the face of continued negotiating deadlocks. For another, Washington does not want to appear too eager for an agreement lest that weaken its bargaining position with Moscow and later make it more difficult to win ratification in the Senate. As it is, Senate approval is far from assured...
...goals, the prospects for the economy are touch and go. The standard forecast is that growth of real G.N.P. will slow to about 4% in the current quarter and 2% or 3% in the fourth?partly because the recent pace just cannot be sustained, partly because inflation will weaken the economy. Real G.N.P. is expected to be essentially flat in the first half of 1979. It is anyone's guess whether the slowdown will fulfill the definition of recession: two straight quarters of decline in real G.N.P. and mounting unemployment...
...economists agree that Proposition 13 will weaken local governments by increasing their dependence on state and federal funds. Warns Nathan: "As the state government becomes a more important source of revenue, more politics will be introduced into the allocation of funds." Still, argues Weidenbaum, "it was a ridiculous situation where the government was collecting money faster than they could sensibly spend it, so I don't think those who want to control the situation should be put on the defensive." Notes Sprinkel: "It will make local government more dependent on state financing, but it will also cut down state...
...Menachem Begin was prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through, but many Israelis...
...that would ease the way for new airlines to enter the industry, cut fares even lower and permit lines to spread onto other routes with little or no Government interference. The bill, which the Administration thinks has a good chance of passage in the House this summer, would drastically weaken the powers of the CAB. But that does not worry Kahn, who contends that "I will consider myself a success in this job if there is no job when I leave...