Word: crackdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the government were to order a crackdown on the pirates, there is no certainty it would have the authority to enforce its decree. Officials in Beijing admit privately that without a strong leader at the top, Beijing's administrative power has weakened, particularly in the prosperous and freewheeling southern provinces...
...public, according to polls, than it was by pundits, who accused the President of splitting too many differences. Among the principles the President espoused, and which Republicans said he had co-opted from them: smaller government, lower taxes, a balanced budget, a line-item veto, welfare reform and a crackdown on illegal aliens...
...public, according to polls, than it was by pundits, who accused the President of splitting too many differences. Among the principles the President espoused, and which Republicans accused him of co- opting from them: smaller government, lower taxes, balanced-budget reforms, a line-item veto, welfare reform and a crackdown on illegal aliens. Yes on Balanced Budget Joined by many Democrats, including some liberals, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives approved a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 300 to 132, comfortably exceeding the two-thirds majority needed. The measure, which was stripped...
...decidedly not a soft drink -- and probably not a sex aid. According to his supporters, who gathered last week to celebrate his release from prison, he's the first underground hero of the Information Age, the Robin Hood of cyberspace. Arrested two years ago in a federal crackdown on computer break-ins, he became a cause celebre among the Net intelligentsia: a master hacker jailed not only for what he did but also for what he knew...
...defensive against the tacit "red-brown" alliance of communists and ultranationalists. If democratic forces now become wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher in rank than Major Victor consider the invasion a piece of bloody foolishness...