Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOREOVER, as a result of the split, each faction moved to strengthen its position vis a vis the other and, in the process, moved further away from the mainstream of Harvard life. Trying to begin organizing workers, WSA members began getting jobs, often full-time ones, as workers at Harvard or in Cambridge and treated the University to the amusing spectacle of seeing its recent graduates sling hash in the dining halls. Members of NAC also tried to find a revolutionary constituency: they searched among Greater Boston blacks, tenant unions, street people and working class teenagers...
...support. In a whirl of charges and countercharges, Prime Minister Jack Lynch fired two of his Cabinet ministers. A third resigned in sympathy. At week's end Lynch reshuffled his entire Cabinet. Behind the firings was the story, not yet fully substantiated, of an arms plot intended to strengthen the outnumbered Catholics of the North...
...limitations to its effectiveness. Unlike an industrial strike, which imposes appreciable financial loss upon an employer, a student strike has little more than symbolic value. Though such a strike can demonstrate the existence of an anti-war movement, by itself it can do liule to spread and strengthen that movement...
Students said they took over the administration offices because the college's canceling classes served to undercut the strike. "We feel we must demonstrate that the strike is still on, and we feel this action will strengthen the position of the negotiating team," an occupiers' statement said...
...Indonesia's economic development plans, and Djakarta is, in effect, counting its wells before they are proved out. Deeply in debt after years of misrule under former President Sukarno, the country owes $2 billion to foreign creditors. If oil is produced on a large enough scale, it will strengthen Indonesia's economy and finance sorely needed development...