Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a "proposal" and painted instead a picture of a Swiss-style large reserve army. But Ortega was trying to have it both ways. While aiming to soothe Washington, he was playing to audiences at home, where both Miranda's charges and peace talks with the contras threaten to weaken Sandinista support. In a speech the same day, Ortega warned that if the Sandinistas lost an election they would step down but would lead an insurrection if they disagreed with the new government's policies. Ortega warned the opposition parties to watch their step. If the opposition gets too cozy...
...dissenters in TIME's poll believe a downturn is already on the way. Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust, forecasts that GNP will contract by 1.5% next year. "Consumer spending is weak and likely to weaken further," he says. "Wages have just not kept up with inflation." Johsen Takahashi, of the Mitsubishi Research Institute in Tokyo, predicts a .5% decline for the U.S. economy in 1988: "The stock market will take another plunge next year, as will the dollar." The outlook, he warns, is "very...
...first Secretary of State, Haig may be the most credible of the treaty opponents. Never a darling of the right wing, he skips anti-Communist boiler plate and stresses geopolitical concerns: that eliminating Euromissiles will heighten the Soviets' overwhelming advantage in conventional forces; that denuclearization of Western Europe , could weaken the NATO alliance; that the treaty fails to address the need for cuts in the Soviets' arsenal of ICBMs. In 1981 Haig argued for a deal that would leave each side with a reduced number of missiles. When he lost that argument, he dutifully supported the President's zero-option...
Again, I appreciate McGanney's article, her thoughtfulness and her careful research. I disagree with her conclusions, and believe her absurd accusations of elitist plotting only weaken her argument. Her extremist views rest less on a consideration of the facts than on her own preference for "experimental" drama and an overzealous fascination with the power of a name. Andrew C. Watson '88 President, HRDC
careful timing of reform, so that the government seems to make changes from a position of strength, rather than in response to demands from below. "Reforms which appear to be granted under pressure from events and the demands of more radical groups can only weaken the regime, strengthen the radicals, lead to more extreme demands from more groups, and provoke a counter-revolutionary backlash...