Word: lid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China the forces for transformation bubble up from below, while in the Soviet Union they are marshaled from above. But in both cases there is recognition that the system needs a drastic overhaul. -- How far will China's hard-liners go to keep the lid on discontent? -- Presiding over the most freely elected legislature in his country's history, Gorbachev hears the clamorous voices of the people...
...Black Sea in Crimea. Even the man who stood up to nominate Gorbachev for President, author Chingiz Aitmatov, did so with a few cavils. Gorbachev, he said, had made "serious mistakes," notably a failure so far to turn around the country's faltering economy and to keep a lid on ugly ethnic rivalries...
...authority with the Communist Party's hierarchy, of which Gorbachev is General Secretary. He may thus be able (if his footwork remains agile) to use the new Supreme Soviet to outmaneuver the conservatives in the Communist Party's apparatus and to use the party's Politburo to keep a lid on the insurgents in the Supreme Soviet...
...after that? Although the pipeline law limits a company's liability to $100 million in most cases, that lid is off if a spill and the damage that results are due to negligence. A court may find that the actions of Captain Hazelwood and Third Mate Cousins -- and the failure of both Alyeska and Exxon | to respond quickly to the spill -- meet that test. Both the state of Alaska and the Federal Government have opened criminal investigations of the spill. "It will be a long war of experts," says James McNerney, a Houston specialist in environmental and maritime...
Evidently Mikhail Gorbachev is willing to tolerate capitalist-style "contradictions" in his attempt to fuel economic reform with a dose of democracy. In any case, the heavy Soviet lid has been lifted, and the voices from inside the box -- above all, the voices of ever resilient Russian intellectualism -- are being heard in ways and forums unimaginable 20 years ago. If the democratic experiment has so far failed to improve the economy, it has radically altered the arts and the mass media...