Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dank atmosphere that nurtured this tangle of alleged corruption began after the Socialists' re-election in 1985. Papandreou was eager to tighten his grip on the country. He found a perfect match in the ambitious young publisher and banker Koskotas, who saw in PASOK a means to build an empire...
Choice. The idea sounds so compelling compared with the tyrannical grip most public schools have over families. But it is a policy that excites divergent passions. "No school district can please all students all the time," Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich told educators who gathered in Minneapolis two weeks ago. "But without choice, school districts have little incentive to change...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...
...Navajo nation as its strong-willed chairman ever since 1970. Presiding over a Southwest desert reservation larger in area than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, he has lived well on his $55,000 annual salary plus, according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted to cling to power...
Otherwise, Baker was like someone on an all-you-can-visit tour, racing through 14 European capitals (not to mention Ottawa) in eight days. His visit was long enough for him to see that Western Europe is in the grip of Gorby fever: in response to Mikhail Gorbachev's disarming foreign policy, leaders there are awaiting something more substantive in the way of a U.S. response than the singing of Moscow Nights during the Soviet leader's White House visit...