Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal of Rudenstine's administration since it began in 1991 has been to weaken the rugged-individual school paradigm. But Rudenstine did so delicately, proposing to transform Harvard's decentralized environment-not to something more centralized-but to a more coordinated, cooperative system, capitalizing on the magical buzzword of the '90s: Synergy...
...supports nothing of the sort. Rather he wants to decriminalize drug use and focus on treatment instead of punishment. Yes, he has inhaled and enjoyed it, but he does not want marijuana legalized. Nevertheless, he says, the unintended consequences of current drug laws are horrendous: "I do want to weaken the drug laws. I think they are unnecessarily severe. The injustice of the thing is outrageous...
...from one part of the Pacific to another. The rearrangement has reverberations throughout the atmosphere, causing droughts in places as far-flung as northeastern Brazil, southern Africa and Australia, while other regions, from California to Cuba, can be hit by torrential rains. These effects are variable. El Nino may weaken the Indian monsoon--or barely affect...
...heard such naysaying before. This mighty bull market long ago trampled traditional value measures such as stock prices relative to corporate assets and dividends. Investors--correctly, it turns out--laughed off the notion that the market must weaken just because dividend yields (annual dividend divided by stock price) sank to below 2% when they've rarely been below 3% any time this century. They also laughed off gobs of anecdotal evidence that prices were precariously high: cab drivers offering mutual-fund tips, barbershops tuned to CNBC, record prices for seats on the New York Stock Exchange, exploding margin debt...
...prepare for an evacuation. Now that the crew has managed to reconnect the power cable, Mir is reorienting towards the sun and recharging its near-depleted power supply. The close call, coming just as the Columbia space shuttle was touching down after a perfect mission, is certain to weaken reinforce strong doubts in Congress about further participation by American astronauts in the threadbare Russian space program...