Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just like the game against Colgate, the Crimson was unable to cling to its fragile intermission advantage...
...instinct at work," says political scientist Greg Thielemann of the University of Texas at Dallas. "Pork-barreling in our direction is O.K." Ironically, a general anti-Washington feeling can work to an incumbent's advantage. The more people distrust the yahoos in Congress, the more inclined they are to cling to "their guy" as their one defender against congressional tomfoolery...
...drive to promote the Japanese-inspired team concept at its plants has often been greeted with suspicion, if not outright hostility, and many line workers cling resolutely to the Old World: a rigid, adversarial system characterized by strict seniority rules and a crippling multiplicity of job classifications. The result is a patchwork of different systems among GM plants, many of which are light-years behind the highly efficient Buick City factory in Flint, Mich., where the Buick LeSabre is produced. Overall, GM has made virtually no gains in productivity and remains the highest-cost automaker in the U.S. In fact...
...most important form of power will be economic, not military. That is already a truism -- but not true everywhere. Indeed the world can be divided into those who live in the era of economics and those who cling to noneconomic, atavistic forces: religion, national or tribal passions, militarism...
When jobs are scarce and economic conditions are squeezed, people cling to their ethnicity and divide along these artificial lines. However, this is not an indication of tribalism clean and simple. It is a response to economic conditions which have been squeezed by sanctions and divestment...