Often, the steps that were taken to improve the target firms' returns on capital involved reducing headcount, breaking unions (Reagan created the precedent for this when he crushed the air traffic controller's union, PATCO), and moving operations to lower-cost locales (e.g., the southern U.S., Mexico, China).
"create the conditions precedent for war.
If séances are a kind of collective remembrance, they created, as it were, the precedent for the ones that have left their most powerful marks, not only on Europe but beyond it, as well.
In a sign of the sensitivity to creating a precedent for calling for the removal of any Arab leader, the league's secretary general, Amr Moussa, refused to discuss the proposal during a news conference tonight.
Another worry about the current prosecution of Mr. Chen is purely political: Some members of Mr. Chen's Democratic Progressive Party warn that it is creating a precedent for the prosecution of former presidents as soon as they leave office.
Russian political commentators believe that the "unilateral" proclamation of Kosovo's independence and its immediate recognition by the US and by the heavyweights of the EU create a precedent for many separatist movements all over the world, from the Basques in Spain to the Uighurs in China, and that multiple conflicts could flare up with new vigour, having received such an impetus.
"We are fighting not just for ourselves but to prevent our company from creating a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country," one of the employees told the local press.
It would undermine motor sport safety by creating a precedent for a proliferation of other series running at less than internationally agreed standards.
The EU-Turkey migration deal has been thrown further into chaos after an independent authority examining appeals claims in Greece ruled against sending a Syrian refugee back to Turkey, potentially creating a precedent for thousands of other similar cases.
