Word: emboldening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...raises smaller than the inflationary ones they won last year. Instead, the G.E. boost is right in line with the 8.2% wage and benefit increase provided by major contracts negotiated in 1969. Such an increase, granted by one of the nation's hardest-bargaining employers, may well embolden other union leaders to hold out for hefty increases in different labor negotiations later this year...
...patched up their differences. They had fallen out after Gabon's President Albert-Bernard Bongo and the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny recognized Biafra. The specter of the beaten Biafrans is likely to serve as a warning to secessionist leaders elsewhere in Africa. It may also embolden national governments to crack down more swiftly and effectively on breakaway elements...