Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Brawley's tale proves a mere hoax, it will collapse the careers of Mason, Maddox and Sharpton--all of whom have staked their reputations on Brawley's veracity. And it may also bring down the progress made for Black justice in New York...
President Francois Mitterrand had tried at first to remain above the parliamentary election battle. The 71-year-old Socialist, after all, had won re-election handily only five weeks earlier largely by promising to bring a measure of consensus to a confrontational style of politics. Last week, though, as a desultory legislative campaign suddenly turned into the traditionally bitter left-right duel, Mitterrand decided it was time to intervene on behalf of the embattled left. "I ask Frenchwomen and Frenchmen to confirm the vote they delivered in the second round of the presidential election last May 8," he declared...
...members are hanging tough: only 5% of the 3,500 affected employees have returned to their jobs, even though the company has hired replacement workers. The strikers' hopes in a seemingly hopeless cause focus on one man: Ray Rogers, the tenacious labor organizer who eight years ago helped bring a union to the J.P. Stevens textile company after 17 years of resistance, and has led fights against many other firms, has taken up the banner of the United Paperworkers...
...million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring in" and "probably the workingman's biggest friend...
...prevent such an outcome, we have individually pledged to take the actions outlined below. In general, we intend to bring our growth rates into closer alignment to help correct trade imbalances. To reduce exchange-rate volatility, our central banks will agree to specific ranges within which currencies will be allowed to fluctuate. We will not hesitate to use all available means, including central-bank intervention in the foreign-exchange markets and adjustments in our interest-rate policies, to make sure that the currencies stay within these so-called target zones...