Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shanker also said approval of the bill would weaken education by reducing the labor support now behind the health and welfare appropriations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...I.T.A. President Mike Parkhurst, 46, a burly, boisterous former trucker who started organizing the independents almost a decade ago. His monthly magazine, Overdrive (circ. 51,000), is the main trade publication of the independents. Parkhurst freely admits that one of the goals of the present strike is to weaken the Teamsters. He wants the independents to carry freight at the same rate as the Teamsters, clearly a challenge to the monopoly that has benefited the nation's biggest union for so long...
...Polish nationalism and to the traditional enmity between Poles and Russians, which complicate any prediction of the future and any estimate of what John Paul's visit may achieve. What will happen now? Will the visit stir even more nationalistic fervor in Poland and elsewhere and eventually help weaken the hold of the Soviet Union? Will the Soviets pressure Gierek because he indulged the Pope in his desire to visit? Will the Warsaw government feel the need to reassert itself by cracking down on Catholicism...
Levesque had done whatever he could to ensure the defeat of his old enemy Trudeau. To weaken the Liberals' traditional domination of federal elections in Quebec, the Parti Québecois endorsed the Social Credit Party and its bombastic leader, Fabien Roy. The strategy backfired. In the Liberal sweep of the province, five of the nine Social Credit M.P.s were defeated...
During the recession, TIME'S economists expect, the real gross national product will decline by only 1% or 2% before recovering next spring. Still, that will be enough to weaken loan demand and cause overall interest rates to turn down. The economists expect the banks' prime lending rate to rise from the present 11¾% to 12½% or 13% in early summer, and then decline, perhaps sharply. Thus, the stock market should rise later this year. Wall Street rallies often begin during recessions...