They worry whether Mexico's democratic institutions would be strong enough to impose restraints on his power should he become president.

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With the NFL allowed to impose its restraints through an impasse in bargaining and seemingly free to impose their system on the players as long as the players had a collective bargaining agent (union), Upshaw decided to have the players become antitrust litigants rather than union members.

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