Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUCTW's major task now is to negotiate its first contract, and to do so, labor experts say, the union will have to fend off opposition from a University which has fought it for 17 years as well as antagonism from within its own ranks...
...environment, Dukakis implemented one of the country's strongest toxic waste clean-up programs and fought for safety controls at the Seabrook nuclear power plant. While Dukakis opposed offshore oil drilling, there is little hope that former oilman Bush will. As head of Reagan's task force on Regulatory Relief, Bush led the administration's effort to cut regulations on air polluion, toxic waste and curbing use of lead gasoline...
Roger Porter, who teaches government and business at the Kennedy School and has advised Bush on economic and trade policy, does not think that there is a great deal to separate the candidates on foreign policy issues--which may be some evidence that the battle is truly being fought at the center...
...companies may be leaner, but often they are also weaker, with little money to invest in expansion or innovation. Says Michel David-Weill, the French senior managing partner of the Lazard Freres investment firm: "The wave of leveraged buyouts is weakening the competitiveness of many U.S. companies that have fought so hard to regain...
When Muhammed Ali fought, people watched, cared. When Mike Tyson fights again--against Frank Bruno or whoever shows up to take a fall--will people watch and care? Or will they simply wait for Tyson's next exploit outside the ring...