Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some $20 million is earmarked for membership drives, and the tactics are increasingly bareknuckled--as in the effort to drive away New Otani's tour business. The number of organizers deployed by the federation has increased more than tenfold since 1990. And defying labor's stereotype as a bastion of old white males, the new organizers are mostly in their 20s and 30s, mostly female and, like Campos, increasingly from minority groups...
Harvard has never been a bastion of major successful sports teams--with few exceptions, notably men's crew...
Harvard: A Bastion of "New" Activism...
Residents of the Bay State, however, may have seen the last of Dole. His campaign advisers will almost assuredly convince him that he has little chance in November in this bastion of the Democratic Party, making campaigning here virtually useless...
...centuries, Harvard has been viewed as a bastion of the old boys' network, an exclusive club where men could send their sons to learn how to smoke cigars and rule the world...