Sentence:  Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" <WSD>datings</WSD> of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment <WSD>datings</WSD> lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" <WSD>datings</WSD> of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" <WSD>datings</WSD>). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.