Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MAJOR CRITICISM of the book has come from the PROD and TDU dissidents, who claim that Brill just doesn't deal with the possibilities for reform in the union. The dissidents would rather Brill had looked into reform movements in other unions, the Mineworkers' anti-Tony Boyle campaign, say, or the Sadlowski insurgency in the Steelworkers, to figure out why such movements succeed or fail. That kind of analysis would have been much more useful than any series of profiles of the bosses, the dissidents...
Dukakis inherited a large budget deficit from Sargent. He alienated much of his support among Massachusetts liberals by cutting social welfare programs in efforts to deal with the state's money problems...
...inappropriate, I might add. As a former Harvard goaltender, I have always felt a certain bond with the Crimson writer. Both the Harvard goalie and the Crimson writer work long and hard to master their craft. And both the Harvard goalie and the Crimson writer take a great deal of verbal abuse for their efforts. The only difference that I can see is that the Harvard goalie usually doesn't deserve the abuse...
...firing of newly-appointed police chief Richard Hongisto sparked a recall election which eventually fell just 236 votes short of ousting him from office. His administration, staffed primarily by unusually young and inexperienced supporters whom the Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with the incomprehensible financial records left by the previous administration of Republican Ralph J. Perk. Then on Dec. 16, Kucinich's refusal to make political compromises and devise a financial package that the banks would accept plunged the city into default...
...makers as well. American Asian policy for the last 30 years--highlighted by two wars--has been marked by diplomacy ignorantly conceived and irrationally executed. Without communication with the dominant nation in the region or an understanding of the cultural background of the nations with whom we wished to deal, our policy has failed to be consistent. If our goal is to achieve competent foreign policy--grounded in the realities of the Asian situation and rationally carried out--then normalization with China is essential...