Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ackermann sees the so-called "Peace Wars" as a tragic example of violence begetting violence. Police who were not trained to handle peaceful demonstrations let events get out of control and did not know how to respond...
More puzzling is her treatment of the conflict within the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--the good-government organization that endorsed her--over the issue of rent-control...
...rift during the years 1972-73 between the CCA and one of its original founders, Councillor Edward A. Crane '38, Ackermann makes no mention of the final day of the 1973 council session, when Crane and another CCA councillor broke ranks and tried to repeal the city's rent control ordinance...
After struggling in the first set, Brown took control in the second, beating Nick Jones, 7-6, 6-2, at the number-three spot...
...last empire, demonstrators wave placards, some of them bearing Gorbachev's portrait; they hurl slogans, including some he made famous; they taunt troops, all of whom he commands from Moscow. Shouts lead to shots, and a riot becomes an enactment of Gorbachev's greatest dilemma: the relaxation of control can also mean disorder, which in turn can provoke repression, reversing reform and jeopardizing the political survival of the reformer. Last week it happened in Tbilisi. Next week, or next month, it could happen outside the borders of the U.S.S.R. but still within the empire, in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, East Berlin...