Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic turn in the endless, blood-drenched conflict between Britain and Ireland, Protestant and Catholic. It was also the boldest step of British Prime Minister Edward Heath's career. In a daring attempt to end the terror in Northern Ireland, he last week imposed direct rule by London on that troubled province. Hoping to break "the vicious circle of violence and yet more violence," Heath suspended for at least a year the Protestant-dominated government at Stormont, which has ruled Ulster since 1921. For Catholics, it was the most significant victory yet won for political equality. But in ending...
...Left or consumerist critics as from some of the system's primary defenders, namely the Republican Party and private businessmen. By ordering the first controls in the nation's history (outside of a military emergency) clamped on wages, prices and rents, President Nixon made one of the boldest encroachments so far on the free-enterprise system. Nixon's New Economic Policy is, in fact, only the latest and most dramatic in a series of events that seem to challenge the principle of free enterprise. In business, the role of Government is fast growing larger-as savior, subsidizer...
...Price Commission contrasts with the confusion rending its sister agency, the Pay Board. The board established a 5.5% guideline for wage raises, but got in the hole very quickly by approving a coal contract that calls for increases of 15% or more the first year. In his boldest move, Grayson acted to contain the inflationary impact of that ruling. When coal companies asked for price rises ranging from 5.4% to 9.4%, the Price Commission allowed only 2.9% to 4.9%. Grayson also announced a general principle that companies can raise prices only as much as they would if wage increases really...
...their boldest move since 1968, Mexican students three weeks ago marked the third anniversary of "La Noche Triste" by taking over the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico's largest technical school. The takeover is only one sign of the increased political activity. When newly elected Mexican president, Luis Echeverria, granted amnesty to the student leaders imprisoned since 1968, the student left came alive. The atmosphere in university centers has noticeably changed from one of lethary and outright fear to excited planning and organizing. Opinions which were once only expressed behind locked doors are now freely offered to reporters. Richard Hyland...
...great writer's boldest act of defiance thus far; his letter struck at the heart of the Kremlin's most ruthless and most secret instrument of terror. Specialists in the West speculated that the KGB, unused to such challenges, might well be tempted to retaliate by permanently ensuring Solzhenitsyn's silence. As a KGB officer told Gorlov: "We are on an operation, and on an operation we can do anything...