Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Avoid threats as much as possible. They tend to weaken discipline...In a sense, a threat is a dare--it admits that the child may disobey. It should impress him more to be firmly told [what to do] if he knows from experience that his parents mean what they say." (From Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care...
...final decision won't come before next summer, but in preparation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finishing a plan for turning bear management over to a consortium of the three states, two national parks, seven national forests and four federal agencies. Environmentalists fear this unwieldy arrangement could weaken grizzly-conservation efforts (the head of Wyoming's Game and Fish Department has talked of authorizing a trophy hunt of nuisance bears). As the grizzlies den up for the winter, stay tuned for the growling of experts fighting over the bears' fate...
...Backbone elongates --Muscles and bones weaken --Face gets fuller --Chest gets bigger --Legs and thighs get thinner...
...them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce and becomes its own sibling. On the surface the kelp flattens into canopies, 3 ft. thick, that weaken the waves and provide otters with hammocks, where they snooze...
...coli O157:H7 [KILLER BACTERIA, Aug. 3]. It provided readers with a real-life example of what epidemiologists do to protect the public health and underscored the need for maintaining skills and capabilities as an integral part of the U.S. public health system. All too often shortsighted budget cuts weaken the system's capacity to identify an outbreak quickly and intervene early enough to prevent further spread of an illness. Effective prevention requires some investment, and this is more important than ever with so many newly emerging communicable diseases like E. coli O157:H7. JOHN BECKLEY, Director Department of Health...