Word: uprooting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is the company's determination to uproot work rules that, it argues, reflect generations of featherbedding that cost the News some $70 million a year in excessive wages and benefits. The newspaper says it loses $50 million annually. "These contracts are a nightmare," says News publisher James Hoge. "You can't manage effectively under them...
...ECAC once again boasts a bevy of talented teams that will take a crack at the national title. Like last season, this winter campaign should have more than its share of upsets. Any team can uproot any other on any given night. Last-place Army proved this last year by defeating the Crimson on the opening game of Harvard's Season After. In that sense, there will again be parity this season in the ECAC...
...Florida, just 200 miles below man's imaginative creation, Disney World, nature's great act, the Everglades, is on the edge of collapse because of dry weather and the demands for water. The National Park Service is seeking money so that the Army Corps of Engineers can uproot some of their canals and dams that have routed water to commercial use. It is a new experience for the Army engineers, who rarely undo their majestic alterations of Mother Nature. But suddenly the thirsty residents of Miami realize that if the Everglades aquifers languish, so does the city. Here again, some...
Even at low ebb, Havel was protected in some measure by his prominence abroad. Authorities made no effort to uproot him from the handsome granite apartment block built by his father and also tenanted by his brother, where Havel has room after room lined with books and videotapes, the elegance tempered by big beer-hall ashtrays, overflowing with butts, on seemingly every table. The car that the police most often vandalized was a white Mercedes. Although his manner is earthy and direct and his short, dumpy frame and mustache bring to mind a small, playful walrus, Havel still...