Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since its debt crisis first erupted, Mexico has struggled to make the economic reforms demanded by its creditors. The government has broken up some state monopolies, curbed subsidies and imposed such severe austerity measures that the country's standard of living has fallen below what it was a decade ago. Yet Mexico's economy has stagnated, largely because of its crushing debt burden (current total: $100 billion...
...Perestroika is a revolution," Gorbachev insists, and only two weeks ago he warned a meeting of top Communist Party leaders that any official at any level who was not prepared to man the barricades would be purged. He had already proved his seriousness by ousting Leningrad party chief Yuri Solovyov and attacking the party organization there for "chewing the same stale gum" and resisting reform...
...threats to Gorbachev and his program, one of the most immediate comes from the conservative faction inside the party. Gorbachev has been chipping away at the conservatives since he took power 4 1/2 years ago, and now sometimes gives the impression that he is willing to destroy the party in order to save it. By creating a new legislature and making himself head of state, he has built a fallback power center from which he can bombard the party's hard-liners and, if necessary, defend against their counterattacks...
...years ago that she abruptly decided to stand up to her country's male-dominated political culture. In 1969 Doi, then a lecturer at Doshisha, approached the deputy mayor of her hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P. draft for the lower house of parliament. The official was condescending and blunt: "Wouldn't it be really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election...
...effort to include them. That approach has done more for race relations in this town than anything else. I very much do not want to be guilty of some of the things they were guilty of. I have more close white friends today than I had five years ago because of my work here. There are white women and white men who are willing now to speak out against injustices. I'm optimistic because we've made so many gains. Look at how far we have come...