Word: crackdown
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...crackdown on wildcat strikers represents a very modest start toward solving Portugal's horrendous economic problems. Inflation is running at 30% a year and the main sources of foreign earnings are drying up. Remittances sent home by Portuguese workers living abroad, which amounted to almost $1 billion last year, were down at least 70% in the first month after the coup because of uncertainty about the situation back home. Tourism, the second most important source of foreign-currency income, is down at least 30%. The halls of big Lisbon hotels are as empty as morgues, and beaches along...
Marichal, who said he knows Soares personally, described the socialist leader as "a man of great integrity" who will attempt to moderate radical students and other young people in order to prevent a military crackdown. "The military will not allow an excessive move to the left," Marichal said...
ANTON CHEKHOV wrote The Three Sisters is 1900, four years before he died. Russia in 1900 was not a very calm place. Lenin and Trotsky were in exile after a police crackdown on factory agitation. Corruption in government and business was widespread, and the peasants were as hungry as they'd always been. Chekhov's play focuses on the aristocracy, who were trying to insulate themselves from the rest of society, so it doesn't present direct comment on any other people's problems. And the aristocrats had no problems, except that they were bored and didn't know what...
Canada's large-scale crackdown cannot, of course, serve as any kind of model for the U.S., nor would most Americans support the abrogation of the traditional American concepts of civil rights. The U.S. has no terrorist groups of any size or popular support like those of Quebec, Argentina and Uruguay. The only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers...
...some 500,000 firearms from the populace, the number of violent crimes dropped dramatically, particularly in Manila. The capital, once one of the most crime-ridden cities in Asia, has become one of the safest-an improvement reflected in last year's 48% increase in tourism. A drastic crackdown on tax evaders has increased government revenues enough to enable Marcos to double state expenditures on roads and utilities. A "beautification project" has removed some of the ugly squatter slums from Manila...