Word: strengthened
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...have been contaminated after they had been excreted; this showed that the samples had been doctored by someone. The evidence thus suggests that Silkwood had purposely contaminated herself and had probably smuggled a minute amount of plutonium home from the plant. Why? Perhaps to embarrass the company and thus strengthen the union's bargaining position at negotiations late last November. Or perhaps Silkwood was emotionally unbalanced...
Violent Elements. Ironically, Mishra's death might well strengthen Mrs. Gandhi's position if, as expected, she decides to call new parliamentary elections this year. It reinforces her charge that Narayan's movement has been taken over by violent elements, and that reactionary forces are seeking to overthrow the country's democratic system. More important, it removes from her government a controversial minister whom she had refused to dismiss but who had become a serious political embarrassment...
...England, is broader based but severely hurting financially. Most of the trades council's still-continuing negotiating with Harvard has been done by officials of its central office, not its workers at Harvard, and as a consequence the focal point of the negotiations has been benefits that would strengthen the financial position of the union but not of its members at Harvard...
Fresh from their triumph at the polls in November, the Democrats will assemble in Kansas City, Mo., this weekend for a national conference that could strengthen or seriously weaken the party's chances for the presidency...
Edward L. Keenan '57, master of North House, said yesterday that the student caucus plan "will strengthen and regularize the activities of the CHUL...