Word: crackdown
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...However, some students still say that it seems as though the curve in some classes is unnecessarily harsh. An oft-mentioned Annenberg rumor holds that teaching fellows have been told to crackdown on grade inflation...
...Extreme caution while waiting for parliament to convene in two weeks' time. This may the most dangerous period the reform movement has experienced yet. The leadership has become acutely aware of the need to avoid giving the conservatives the slightest excuse for any sort of crackdown, because they're aware that the shutdown of a newspaper, for example, could provoke a student demonstration, and that in turn could spark a fierce crackdown that might even create a security pretext for the conservatives to delay the seating of the new parliament...
...crackdown was clearly meant to antagonize Khatami and question his authority--his brother is one of the editors of the closed papers. In response, Khatami exercised his seemingly endless store of self-control. He remained silent while others in his government urged university students to avoid confrontations with the authorities. This was not cowardice: Khatami and his government feared riots would give the clergy the excuse it needs to declare Khatami incapable of maintaining national stability. The delicate give and take between the clerics and Khatami's government has been sorely tried since the February election. However, Khatami has been...
...unwieldiness and its bureaucrats' subtle sabotage. Despite Putin's refusal to offer explicit policies and his aides' admission that their programs are not ready to be implemented, expectations are growing that Putin will mark the start of his presidency with a series of dramatic gestures--among them, perhaps, a crackdown on high-level corruption. What is not clear is whether this will be a break with the sleazy Yeltsin past or simply window dressing...
They'd better do so soon. Newsgroups are starting to buzz with conspiracy theories. Netizens are natural civil libertarians, and they sense a government crackdown waiting in the wings. The government is getting jittery too, fearful of some future electronic Pearl Harbor. "We're entering a period when a very small number of persons can do greater damage to our American infrastructure than all our previous wars combined," frets Bobbitt...