Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Failure to expand membership, of course, is one reason for this loss of power. The smaller the proportion of workers that he speaks for, the less influence a union leader has with a politician. In Massachusetts, the state AFL-CIO, hit by sagging membership, lacks the $150,000 that it needs to computerize its lists of voters. Knowing that the unions' ability to turn out the vote has declined, Bay State politicos feel less obligated to court labor...
...Bireh, whose slogan is "City on the Move," has always prided itself on its progressive image. In 1972, pressed for more space, townspeople asked Israeli permission to expand municipal boundaries to adjacent lands owned by Al-Bireh residents. The Israelis not only rejected the request but forbade development in two areas, including a site on which Arab businessmen wanted to build a resort...
...bluntly: Chrysler is so strapped for cash to spend at home that it can no longer afford aspirations to global power. Its share of the U.S. market has dropped to 12.8% this year, from 16.2% in 1970, and it must spend $7.5 billion over the next five years to expand and modernize its U.S. plants. It has no hope of financing those expenditures out of depreciation and retained profits-if indeed there are any profits. There will be none this year; though sales are likely to total $18 billion, industry analysts reckon that the company will wind up with...
These are very lucky men, for Evita's London success far outstrips the show's merits. Though extravagantly staged by American Director Harold Prince, whom Stigwood imported for the occasion, Evita is a cold and uninvolving show that does little to expand the traditional musical comedy format or our understanding of a bizarre historical figure. Evita is often spectacular in its pretensions, but it is not even the best musical to touch on the subject of political repression. That honor belongs to two of Prince's Broadway productions-Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret...
...understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand the Sinai settlements before a peace agreement had been concluded. When the Israelis began leveling land for enlarging the settlements last January, Sadat became furious at what he considered bad faith on Begin's part. The Israeli Premier, in turn, was angry at what he took to be Egyptian...