Word: folds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward Sawicki, a Central Committee member from the official O.P.Z.Z. trade unions, expressed the fears of many in the government when he said legalizing opposition in any enterprises would be like "introducing a Trojan horse" into Polish factories. The committee eventually voted to invite Solidarity back into the fold, but not without a harness. According to the three-page document, the government is "in favor of lifting -- under conditions of a national agreement -- restrictions on establishing trade unions." Among the conditions that the unions (read Solidarity) must meet: renouncing all foreign financial support -- including U.S. aid -- and vowing to suppress...
...protect--Chelsea doesn't want to put the city into debt and we don't want to open ourselves to suits," Greer said. "They want the project but they also have to protect the city. They've been good negotiations--Chelsea's lawyer doesn't want to just fold without getting all it can for the city...
Reform leaders, in a letter to the Israeli government, called it an "attempt to read three-quarters of the Jewish people out of the Jewish fold." Even the Rabbinical Council of America, representing 90 percent of American Orthodox rabbis, said the measure had to be defeated in order to "preserve the unity and support of the American Jewish community with and for Israel...
Although Bradley cannot hope to match the charisma of, say, Ronald Reagan, he is quite capable of making an ideological appeal to the broad spectrum of "average Americans" that Dukakis courted. (The one exception is Southern conservatives, who will never return to the fold unless the Democrats retreat on civil rights and social issues, which they will never...
...Republicans are too adept at playing racial politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...