Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tale of that struggle is continued in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which seems at first simply a replication of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Again, the Soviet crackdown becomes a watershed in the experience of Kundera's people, making the past irretrievable and the future ominous. Again, the author divides his fiction into seven parts. This time, though, the connections between them are firmer. Four main characters keep reappearing, and their lives, though not always displayed chronologically, assume the extended contours of traditional love stories...
...known for many months what we would do in case of direct Soviet intervention-and indeed there had been a good deal of speculation in public about a variety of sanctions-but there was no certain plan of action in the more ambiguous case of an internal crackdown...
Today's shutdown was part of a larger crackdown started this year by the department...
Reporters promptly cornered the mayor, who proved no fan of the state liquor authority crackdown. "It's archaic, it's arcane, it's stupid," Koch fumed. "It'll raise the price of dinner. You like to get a little bargain now and then. I mean, that's what life is all about." Koch suggested that the SLA suspend its directive...
...boom in phony card charges is partly due to a crackdown on another type of telephone abuse. For years operators seldom asked questions when travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...