Word: pact
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the American family began to disintegrate as technological dreams materialized. Beginning in the 1960s, the family became open to attack as a nest of oppression and pathology. As one example, David Cooper, a psychiatrist of the time, denounced the institution of family as "a secret suicide pact...an ideological conditioning device in any exploitative society." It is therefore no wonder that three decades later, a New York Times op-ed piece would announce that the nuclear family is "fast becoming a relic of the Eisenhower...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
...made a pact with myself. If I'm really going to use the old "I go to school in Boston" line, I'm going to at least mean it. And, sometime before I graduate, I'm going to walk the Freedom Trail. Would you care to join...
...contract provides few advantages for the members of Local 254. It freezes wages for the first 20 months of its duration. It also cuts vacation time and slashes sick pay. The new pact does offer employees a short-term disability plan, and upgrades benefits for part-time employees. But while current union members will not see their pay decrease, new employees will be hired at significantly lower wages. New full-time custodians and supply room employees will only earn $8.57 per hour...
...security for all custodial workers is also improved by this pact, Manning said. If an outside contractor is hired by a Harvard department, the Harvard custodial workers who would be affected by the loss of a contract will be given priority for jobs both within Harvard and with the outside contractor...