Word: entrenched
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...everything goes according to plan, that will never happen again. In the "new" Chinese ago of pragmatism, the era when the onetime "capitalist roaders" and the "stinking ninth category" of the intellectual elite will entrench themselves in power and Deng Xiaoping will not bat a hairy eyebrow when he labels Mao Zedong an "ultraleftist," people will lose their jobs for mistakes like that. For the signals emanating from the Great Hall of the People in the last two weeks tell us that in the ongoing struggle between economic growth and ideology, profits have become more important than politics...
...proposals, the government said that the changes would work only if Canada continued to be "a genuine federation" -meaning with Quebec as one of its provinces. For Canada's 6 million French-speaking Canadians (out of a 23 million population), Trudeau's key proposal is one to entrench a "charter of basic rights and freedoms" in the constitution. The charter guarantees, among other things, the principle of bilingualism in government services throughout Canada, Trudeau's alternative to separatism as a shelter for the French-speaking minority. On the contentious issue of division of powers, Trudeau wants...
...them-at least for a year or so. That is a welcome indication that Con Ed may have seen the light. Of late the company, which earned $301 million in 1976, has concentrated on improving its cash position. For the time being, though, the FPC report can only entrench Con Ed in its position as the company that New Yorkers love to hate...
...gain control of a corporation's stock by buying out shareholders at a price above the market value. The banks, quite simply, oppose the idea of giving up a chance to make extra profit from their stock. They also say that these two types of proposals help to entrench managements and make it more difficult for shareholders to bring about changes in managements they consider irresponsible...
...vulnerable, that their low selfimages and naive ideas of trust led them to victimize themselves, is more than specious; it is destructive. It is destructive because, although most of the time such analyses are presented as intelligent, informative discussions of women's problems, in reality they only serve to entrench the stereotypes they seek to illuminate...