Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face the legal problem of "pre-emption," which limits their right to pass statutes in areas that are already addressed by national laws. For example, courts have held that a strict California consumer protection bill was pre-empted by a similar federal law, even though the federal version was weaker...
...guerrillas are stronger, and the army weaker, than appeared...
Those ideas for moderating South Africa's rigidly segregationist policies of apartheid show every sign of being far weaker than Botha had once promised. Two years ago, Botha told his fellow Afrikaners they must "adapt or die" in confronting racial segregation. Using the same moralistic tones, he later declared: "I am more convinced than ever that there is only one course to follow: do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...mining, communications and aerospace, Mitterrand's program calls for the creation of 210,000 public sector jobs, a higher minimum wage, tax hikes for the wealthy and a 35-hour work week. Critics see this as a guarantee of more inflation, more balance of payments deficits and a weaker franc...
...work ethic is not dead, but it is weaker now. The psychology of work is much changed in America. The acute, painful memory of the Great Depression used to enforce a disciplined and occasionally docile approach to work-in much the way that older citizens in the Soviet Union do not complain about scarce food and overpopulated apartments, because they remember how much more horrible everything was during the war. But the generation of the Depression is retiring and dying off, and today's younger workers, though sometimes laid off and kicked around by recessions and inflation, still...