Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union called Harvard's appeal an anti-union tactic, accusing them of using the delay to take advantage of summer employee turnover--which is near 40 percent--to weaken the union. If Harvard had won its appeal the vote would have been retaken...
...next Cambridge municipal election remains more than a year away, but realtor Fred Meyer and a group of small landlords are already working to put a question on the 1989 ballot that would weaken the city's 18-year-old rent control...
Sullivan said Councillor and State Rep. Saundra Graham's announcement that she would not seek re-election to the Council complicated his decision. He said Graham's absence would weaken the CCA slate...
Click. A world-famous director rehearses one of Strindberg's plays. Suddenly policemen appear in his theater to arrest him on charges of tax evasion. His bowels weaken and he must make a lengthy, humiliating trip to the water closet, with a cop posted outside the door, before going to confront his accusers...
...Department of Education warned in 1983, a foreign power scheming to weaken America could not have concocted a more insidious plot than the debasement of public education. The threat to U.S. security ranges from the fact that nearly a quarter of military recruits cannot understand written safety instructions to the growing shortage of students in science and engineering. At the dawn of a new era of international competition, less than one-quarter of public high school students are currently enrolled in a foreign-language course. The bulk of American students cannot locate the world's most important nations...