Word: waged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South House, posters have lasted for as few as one and one half hours, and few have survived longer than a day. This ripping of posters is a very real and serious form of psychological violence. To participate in it or simply to stand silently by is to wage psychological warfare against other members of the Harvard/Radcliffe community. To discount the effect of these selectively violent actions is to be blind to the power of psychological abuse. And psychological abuse, if allowed to escalate, frequently leads to physical violence...
...poor, who have little discretionary income and thus feel more acutely the pinch of rising prices. The CBO confined its analysis to the direct effects of tax and budget cuts. Similarly, the CBO did not try to measure the impact of increases in Social Security taxes paid by wage earners, since the hikes were enacted, although not fully put into effect, before Reagan took office. Those increases reduced the take-home pay of most workers, partly offsetting the effect of the tax cuts...
Argentina promised last week that it would slash its government deficit from 14% of national output to 9% as a way of curbing inflation. But Alfonsin may have trouble getting Argentine labor unions to accept wage restraint. The opposition Peronist party tightly controls many of the unions. Alfonsin has tried unsuccessfully to push a bill through Congress that would have made unions more democratic...
...industries and tried to spend the country out of recession, but a sagging franc and surging inflation persuaded Mitterrand to return to the more cautious policies of his conservative predecessor, Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Under the direction of Finance Minister Jacques Delors, the Socialist government experimented with wage and price controls, cut spending and instituted an ambitious "industrial restructuring" that could over the next four years lead to the layoff of 50,000 workers in unprofitable industries like steel and coal mining. Over the longer run, Mitterrand's aides fret, the government will be forced to sustain...
...harsh economic measures overshadow Mitterrand's other accomplishments. The French ad mire his muscular foreign policy as much as Washington does. In the deluge of reform legislation passed during his first year, Mitterrand abolished the death penalty and raised the minimum wage. In his assault on France's centralized rule, his government has chipped away Paris' stranglehold on the rest of the country...