Word: crackdown
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...with pipes, shouting "No to the evil law!" Similar clashes involving thousands of marchers occurred in Anyang city, near Seoul, and in Daejon, south of the capital, where seven workers were hospitalized after being clubbed by police, and eight others were detained for questioning. The government is coupling the crackdown on the streets with one in the courts, deciding Thursday to pursue arrest warrants for union leaders. Judge Lee Sang-chul ordered seven leaders of the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions to appear in court by Friday morning, and other district courts issued subpoenas for 13 others, including six Hyundai...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A crackdown on delinquent student loans seems to have paid off: the Education Department reported Thursday that the 1994 default rate was 10.7 percent, a 40 percent drop from the year before President Clinton took office. The Administration was swift to take credit, and used the opportunity to press for further education tax breaks. It was the President, after all, who had proposed such tough measures as dropping trade schools with high default rates from national student aid programs, garnishing the wages of delinquent students and withholding their tax refunds. Meeting with six college students in the Oval...
...leaders have been invited to the School, and more and more of them have accepted these invitations." Kalb offers as an example his recruitment of retiring Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.)--whose speech at the forum last spring was greeted with student protest in opposition to the senator's crackdown on immigration--to teach a course in the spring...
...defeat of 36-year incumbent Neal Smith was one of the great upsets of 1994. The former surgeon wants to take a scalpel to congressional pork and small-business regulations. When it comes to crime, he would rather attack the cancer with punishment than preventive medicine, including a crackdown on deadbeat dads...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On Clinton's regulatory crackdown on tobacco] "It's a political football the President has decided he wants to ram down Kentucky's throat...