Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most economists believe that Menem's most important task will be to privatize Argentina's inefficient state-owned monopolies, which are losing $4 billion annually. Menem may get the power to do so if the Argentine Congress approves a new emergency law that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely to come soon. On Friday, only six days after joining Menem's Cabinet, Economic Minister Miguel Roig died of a heart attack. His replacement, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, will...
...Necessities, Phillip M. Hoose tries to reveal the prejudices that answer these questions. Better stated, he lets them reveal themselves in interviews with players, coaches, scouts and broadcasters. Although only a few comments are overtly racist, many others reveal the innate, subconscious racism of those who control professional sports...
...recruit a black guy into the ACC."). But the stereotypes are too overplayed to be coincidental. After studying the broadcasts of several pro football and college basketball games, Derrick Z. Jackson, a columnist for The Boston Globe, found that adjectives implying pure physical ability or the lack of mental control were used between six and nine times more by broadcasters when they were describing Black athletes...
Meanwhile, many believers in a woman's right to control her own body have become absolutists as well, hooked on the Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death by coat hanger. In April hundreds of thousands marched on Washington in a quixotic attempt to influence the very branch of Government whose independence from public pressure they count on to protect them from the mob on the other side...
Deeply traumatized by China's bloody crackdown on students in Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong has been looking back to London for reassurance that the same thing won't happen there when Beijing assumes control of the crown colony in 1997. At the least, Hong Kong's 5.7 million Chinese want the option of moving to Britain. Last week British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe was dispatched to the colony to allay fears, but his visit only managed to make a bad situation worse...