Word: braking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specifics. Palestinian negotiators would like this approach, and anticipate that Rabin's basic proposal for autonomy will be, in spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi's words, "much more comprehensive and serious" than Shamir's. But they are looking first for some tangible gestures to set the right tone: a complete brake on settlements and an end to harsh occupation rules...
...course, exactly what would have happened had they never tried their putsch. But quite likely their continued presence in the government would have forced repeated compromises that would have kept a brake on reform and democratization of Soviet society. The new treaty of union the putschists acted to forestall would have been signed and kept at least some of the bigger republics in a union with a weakened but functioning central government. The Communist Party, though declining, might have retained considerable influence...
...principle" the Baltics' right to independence. He was always quick to add his insistence that the leaders in those republics pursue their goal by "constitutional means." Everyone knew what that phrase meant: a slow process during which the central government would try to control both the throttle and the brake...
...workplace and from state institutions. His decree was aimed like an ax at the very roots of communist power: the dense tangle of party cells in factories and businesses that have functioned alongside state agencies as a shadow system of administration. This party bureaucracy has been a major brake on radical economic reforms...
...home to the American public the gravity of warfare. When youths from Harvard Square join those from Central Square in dying, so the argument goes, the American public will wake up and start thinking seriously about whether this war is worth fighting. The draft, therefore, will serve as a brake against the rush into battle...