Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More substantively, says a Bush adviser, "the instinct for change is stronger in California than in any other state." Suburbanites may still be generally anti-tax, but their allegiance is being divided by other concerns. They are worried about haphazard commercial growth in residential neighborhoods, gridlocked traffic and parking shortages, air pollution, poor schools -- all problems that seem to call for the governmental solutions that Democrats traditionally favor and Republicans oppose...
Seoul hopes eventually to open channels to the North through its so-called Northern policy, an initiative born of Olympics contacts that is designed to shift South Korea away from its rigidly anti-Communist foreign policy. As yet the South has no formal diplomatic relations with a Communist country but hopes for change after the Games, with China first on the wish list...
...students who never before attended a divestment rally, last year felt no compunction about taking a stand against sexism or racism or anti-gay discrimination. At times, it was like sticking up for a friend...
Despite the anti-union campaign--and, in some cases, because of it--a majority of the support staff voted for the union. Yet, the administration jumped in to challenge the verdict. Even though the closeness of the vote may have justified this interference, Harvard's action casts further doubt on its attitude toward workers and their ability to decide their own fate. Such challenges are a common tactic for employers to delay a union's certification and contract negotiations; the University has already dragged out past union election bids for as long as two years--decreasing awareness of the issues...
...accordance with its own ideals. President Bok had been a forceful supporter of unions as a law professor. But he made a change of heart when it affected his own workforce; the latest example was when he came out against last year's unionization effort. He marshalled an anti-union propaganda machine--writing two anti-union letters himself, sponsoring work-time meetings between administrators and workers, and issuing anti-union pamphets packed with misleading graphs and partial-truths...