Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopt basic political and economic freedoms. Disillusionment with Sandinista rhetoric became clear during President Daniel Ortega's hunt for handouts in Europe last April and May. Instead of the $250 million he sought, Ortega attracted only $32 million. To a suggestion that more democratization in Nicaragua might again loosen European purses, Ortega declared, "No more concessions...
...single party. By forcing the increasingly sclerotic P.R.I. into an opposition role, goes the argument, the defeat in Baja will eventually lead to a more resilient political system. Perhaps. But what no one disputes is that the state of the economy was a major factor behind Salinas' decision to loosen P.R.I. control...
...there is a serious side to their relationship. Harry encourages Sally to loosen up about sex. She helps him to respect women as people, not objects...
...Deng conceived of China's modernization almost exclusively in economic terms. His reforms unleashed long-suppressed entrepreneurial energies but at a cost of soaring inflation (30% annually) and unemployment. Meanwhile, some party officials began to talk of the unthinkable: political reform that would eradicate China's endemic corruption and loosen party strictures on freedom of speech and the press. Those nascent views were given their fullest expression in the slogans of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Some demonstrators even suggested that China should have a multiparty system...
While the scientific community still argues over the validity of independent fusion confirmations at Brigham Young University and Sao Paulo University in Brazil, it seems certain that widespread adoption of fusion technology would significantly loosen the stranglehold oil producing nations have over other industrial countries...