Word: diktat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mutual admiration to mutual acrimony. Both countries claim to embody universal ideals of liberty and human rights, making them kindred souls in terms of shared values but sharp rivals as global role models. Washington's post-cold war ability to throw its weight around often smacks of intimidation and diktat to the proud Gauls. France's response, along with periodic crowings about its own importance, has been to unite Europe as a counterweight to U.S. domination...
...month later, Seshan issued yet another diktat. Ignoring the Rao government's wishes, he decided to stagger balloting in four important northern states over a month, so that 40,000 troops could be deployed in each state to prevent vote rigging. The government then tried to weaken Seshan's power by appointing the two additional election commissioners to outvote his decisions, but the embattled commissioner won a supreme court injunction preventing the action. Next, Congress hit on the strategy of a constitutional amendment. V.C. Shukla, Rao's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, argued that the reason was merely that "we want...
...relieved," said Beat Graf, head of the local administration, after hearing the decision. In the town's central square, some men grumbled about the Diktat from Lausanne but otherwise took the ruling in stride. The women seemed pleased if a bit restrained; when night fell, however, a few quietly decorated the fountain in the all but deserted square with flowers...
...result is a curious reversal of Western feminism's emphasis on careers for women. The new female leaders want to use at least some of their power to reverse the communist diktat that all women have to work. All over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, women have dreamed, says Poland's Minister of Culture and Arts, Izabella Cywinska, "of reaching the point where we have the choice to stay home." That, more than a place in the power structures -- more than anything else -- is what communism deprived them of, and what they want to retrieve...