Word: restiveâ
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Though Reagan seemed to be taking a safe and popular course in facing down the controllers, failure to do so could have been costly. For one thing, other federal unions?most of them quite small, but a few, including the postal workers, strong and increasingly restive???were warily watching the Administration's attitude toward Government strikers. Said one Reagan aide, drawing a rather far-fetched analogy: "If you cave in to a group like this, that has a stranglehold on public safety, what do you do, for example, when the Army wants to strike? It's the same thing...
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