Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measures were so sweeping that they jabbed a public nerve and produced a thunderous reaction both at home and overseas. Opposition leaders redoubled their attacks against the government. The Detainees Parents' Support Committee vowed that it would challenge the latest crackdown in the courts, while the Free the Children Alliance declared that the police statement "criminalizes legitimate protest...
Publishers from Hearst to Hefner have used the maxim "Sex sells" to highly profitable advantage. Businessmen in southern China were following that capitalist road until last week, when Communist Party officials in Guangxi province shut down 39 popular magazines and journals. It was the biggest press crackdown since the campaign against "bourgeois liberalism" was launched four months...
...adventure or kung fu. Some claimed to be serious literary or art journals, including a scholarly legal review that carried articles like "Why the Breast of a Woman Was Tattooed." While some Chinese writers agree that the more vulgar periodicals should be weeded out, they are concerned that the crackdown may herald tougher censorship...
...American in Paris or a Melanesian microchip maker in Minneapolis, the message from the Internal Revenue Service is the same: pay up! The IRS announced a crackdown on American tax evaders living abroad and foreign-owned companies that are operating in the U.S. The Government says that it loses $2.3 billion a year because 61% of the 1.8 million Americans living abroad do not file returns. And an IRS survey of 12,000 foreign-owned U.S. corporations showed that up to 80% pay little...
...study reached no firm conclusion about the cause, acknowledging that several factors, among them rumors and speculative press reports, could help explain the phenomenon. Nonetheless, "it is possible, and logical to many, that illegal insider- trading behavior" might be a significant factor, the study said. If so, the crackdown comes none too soon...