Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon be forced to choose between his bowstrings. The Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week...
...left of the usual American student" and "the European student is a much more active citizen and a more violent political figure" than his American counterpart, "it may seem advisable to ask the IUS to alter the clauses of its constitution covering withdrawal, which are now quite cumbersome, in case NSO found itself obliged to withdraw...
...Lanky John S. Bugas, Ford's industrial relations chief, hotly denied that the company was welching on the original "gentlemen's agreement." But, since the U.A.W. had brought the plan up as a strike issue, the company would also use it as a club; it threatened to withdraw the whole scheme. The union set a strike deadline. A long strike would surely cost the workers the shiny pension model which Ford had offered them. This week the strike was postponed pending more negotiation. But the threat of a struggle neither side wanted remained...
Russia wanted to order the Dutch to withdraw immediately from all territory seized in the current hostilities. For his proposal Gromyko rallied only one other vote: predictable Poland's. So Gromyko strung along with the milder U.S. view...
Like the other rulers of India's 562 Princely States, Faridkot will face sudden political loneliness when the British withdraw late this summer. The princes have to decide quickly whether to throw their lot with one of the new Indian nations or try to go it alone. Faridkot, together with the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharaja of Travancore, had declared he wished to retain his princely independence. But Gandhi threw his enormous prestige behind the Congress solution: end princely privilege. "Rulers," he told his visitor, "have only the right to exist if they become the trustees and servants...