Word: weakened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Traffic Controllers Organization and replace them with nonunion trainees sent a clear signal that striking workers should not look to the Government for sympathy or even tolerance. "Other employers, public and private, interpreted this as a declaration of open season on unions and went all-out to block, weaken or be rid of them," says Thomas Donahue, secretary-treasurer...
Epps and other administrators say that they are concerned that if they offered a variable meal plan, fewer students would eat in the dining halls. "You would weaken the house system," says Epps...
...faults of the dining hall system, a debit-card system with no restrictions would not be any better. It would probably weaken the house system, and possibly the health of students. Neither the strict dining hall system nor an unrestricted debit-card system is ideal for Harvard...
...traditionally the most staunch supporter of Stalinism, views Gorbachev most harshly. "His policies can only weaken the Soviet Union," says Doares. "We hope that he will turn it around or that he will be kicked out and others will turn it around...
...Gorbachev can strengthen the presidency and simultaneously weaken the party's influence, he will have pulled off his most significant political coup to date. Far from giving up his post as party leader, Gorbachev will need that authority for the near future, until presidential powers have been legally guaranteed. And after that? There is a growing realization, even in party circles, that the "leading role" of the Communist Party, enshrined in Article 6 of the constitution, will have to go -- as long as there is a referee to ensure that the emergence of a multiparty system does not result...