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Some were worried the earlier announced changes would degrade or fundamentally alter the programs — while others applauded the relaxed admissions criteria as a step toward making them more accessible.

By attacking Hezbollah on multiple fronts, Israel hopes to degrade the group and let its people return home.

“It’s Big Ag wanting to do business as usual, pollute, exploit and degrade human health, all for profit,” she said.

Unlike Trump, actual men don’t degrade women and possess both humility and the capacity for normal human emotions, such as empathy and sorrow.

The United States may be the most powerful country on the planet, but it can’t control, let alone dictate to, states in the region — particularly when one of those states, Israel, is fully invested in using its superior conventional strength to degrade Iran’s network of proxy militias in the region.