Word: quash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University labor organizers take a different view of Steiner. They say his low-key demeanor masks his aggressive behind-the-scenes efforts to quash unionization efforts on campus...
...within the Western alliance in proper perspective. The grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with European bureaus...
Despite Schaap's eagerness to interview Steinbrenner, and his obvious qualifications as a biographer (he has covered the Yankees since Steinbrenner took over, without taking sides in the team's regular internal battles) the owner refused to cooperate. In fact, Schaap says, Steinbrenner tried to quash the book, exhorting his friends not to answer the writer's questions (Most disobeyed.) Only when Schaap had completed the body of the book late this winter did Steinbrenner finally agree to talk to the author about his life. Unfortunately, the postscript that relates their nine-hour conversation does little besides confirm what Schaap...
...calls to mind other questionable policies, these ones concerning Coop employees. Monday, the National Labor Relations Board heard the Coop defend itself against the board's charges that Coop management illegally interfered with an unsuccessful unionization drive last year--that it employed a variety of union-busting techniques to quash a union that sought to improve wages and working conditions. Whether or not those allegations are accurate, they suggest more fundamental labor problems...
...dogged fidelity to leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...