Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail Gorbachev has a nightmare, and it keeps coming true. In various corners of the world's last empire, demonstrators wave placards, some of them bearing Gorbachev's portrait; they hurl slogans, including some he made famous; they taunt troops, all of whom he commands from Moscow. Shouts lead to...
In the wake of the Prime Minister's latest disclosures, opposition members intensified their demands that he step down. "Your hands are dirty," charged Socialist Diet member Kanji Kawasaki. Takeshita, 65, refused to do so, vowing instead to reform the system. To his critics, Takeshita declared, "I have no intention...
Though Takeshita appeared determined to grit through the crisis, the spreading scandal -- the country's most pervasive in modern times -- may yet topple his Liberal Democratic Party government, much as a series of financial misdeeds brought down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in 1974. Since Recruit's involvement in influence peddling...
Because of the current state fiscal crisis, the Education Reform Act of 1985 may not be fully funded next year. Hundreds of schools across the state, mainly the sorely lacking, inner-city public high schools, will lose badly needed revenue for special projects and equipment purchases.
The current state budget crisis has created serious fiscal problems for many state hospitals, cutting more than $500 million in state funds. In addition, more than $100 million has been cut in federal Medicare programs.