Word: weakening
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Nonetheless, such a plan would be extremely dangerous; just like the export restrictions, it would weaken individuals' privacy without hurting criminals. A key escrow law would be very difficult to enforce, since lawbreakers could always use the products already widespread before the restrictions. Whether the third parties involved in this system could be trusted would always be a matter of faith...
...didn't question was Rezulin's immense promise. In most folks, insulin (a substance produced in the pancreas) helps ferry blood sugar into cells, where it is used for energy. But for the 15 million or so Americans with Type II diabetes, cells resist insulin's entry; eventually they weaken and die. Traditional treatments involve boosting the amount of insulin available to the cells. But these can have side effects, and for some people they don't work...
...Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side" as a proponent of abortion rights, child care and equal pay. To attack him would be to weaken the standing of an "advocate" in the fight for woman's rights. I understand the argument...
...Weaken the company with lots of restrictions...
...that may weaken the case for Oxford. But what a life De Vere led, an existence more Shakespearean than Shakespeare's! Of the man from Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare...