Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department has not made a habit of commenting on Cabinet changes or giving directions on economic policy in other countries. Making an exception in the case of Russia reinforces the specious but widely believed claims of nationalist politicians that the aim of American policy is to humiliate and weaken Russia...
...weaken our defense and our offense by not knowing our enemy," said Elizabeth A. Haynes '98. "In the end, [soliciting opposing viewpoints] makes us stronger advocates...
...today's trading wiped out most of the gains made in December and created new worries that for the Dow, up 32 percent on the year, the 1995 rally might be faltering. Hit especially hard today were tech stocks, such as Netscape, IBM and Apple, which continued to weaken after leading the Dow's charge past 4,000 and then 5,000 this year...
...officials in Washington have been trying to persuade the country of the need to send troops to Bosnia, but they have not been doing a particularly good job of it. Clinton wrote to Congress last week, "If we do not do our part in a NATO mission, we would weaken the alliance and jeopardize American leadership in Europe." Secretary of State Warren Christopher warns that the Bosnian conflict might spread, but it remains unclear what danger the Albanian army poses. Meanwhile, William Perry, the Secretary of Defense, testified to Congress last month that the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia "affects...
...brow of its last hill. Few wild places remain, and the competition for the public's land is growing and becoming dangerously fierce. Here in Washington, America is faced with the most anti-environmental Congress of our lifetime. Resource-extraction industries, foreign and domestic, are writing the legislation to weaken laws that have protected our land, air and water. We Montanans are proud of living in the "last best place," and we are now concerned that the forces of plunder and greed are about to sanction the destruction of the best of our last places. PAT WILLIAMS, U.S. Representative, Montana...