Word: reassertion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kania needs time to reassert the party's authority. And to gain time, he needs cooperation from the workers...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who also had his doubts about Carter's steadiness, expects a Reagan Administration to reassert U.S. power. After meeting with Schmidt last week, Giscard said: "France can only rejoice at the sight of a strong America determined fully to assume its responsibilities...
...fact that the vast majority of Soviet Jews are not religious. The opportunity to follow religious customs, or even to become familiar with them, for the most part does not exist. The choice thus is between continuing to live as before--without religion in their daily lives--or to reassert their faith once they have the opportunity. Few Jewish immigrants choose the former route. Most, at least in a cultural sense, become emotionally or socially involved with the religion and the Boston Jewish community...
Iraq last week attempted to reassert its sovereignty over the 60-mile-long Shatt al-Arab river separating the two countries renouncing the 1975 agreement in which it had partially relinquished control to Iran...
...factory level. Kremlinologist Simes feels that certain concessions could safely be made in the area of labor organization?free trade unions at the shop level, for example, but no factory-or industry-wide unions. No matter the forms, stresses Eastern Europe Scholar Mastny, "Gierek must be able to reassert the political monopoly of the Communist Party...